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Download full textStephens, E. Robert; And Others – 1967
An extensive study, reported in three separately published sections, was made to determine primary aspects of the current consolidation and redistricting of local school districts. Basic procedures used to gather information included a survey of related literature, visitations to county and intermediate educational agencies in Iowa and other…
Descriptors: County Officials, County School Districts, Financial Support, Intermediate Administrative Units
Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Government Studies Center. – 1969
Two distinct types of planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS)--manual and semiautomated--have been developed in the ESEA Title III, Intermediate Unit Planning Study (see EA 002 750). The PPB systems are for use by intermediate units and by school districts in Pennsylvania. The first type is detailed in this document and is referred to as the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Isenberg, Robert M., Ed. – 1954
The spirit of sharing and neighborliness has helped improve educational opportunities for rural communities through school district reorganization. As educational programs related to individual community needs are developed, the need for services beyond the reach of most local school districts is discovered. Community schools face the problem of…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Improvement, Educational Opportunities, Educational Programs
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1971
This information aid presents the latest available statistics on existing size, reviews the research on size, points out the difficulties in arriving at a universally acceptable and supportable recommendation on size, and suggests some recent developments in education that might help alleviate the size drawbacks for the excessively small or large…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Elementary Schools
Miller, Floyd A. – 1968
Five major problems have emerged out of the mobility of the Nebraska population. Declining populations in sparsely populated areas, the outmigration of young adults of child-bearing age, and a concern by the people of Nebraska for the future of their State have created an awareness of the facts and the need to come to grips with the problems and…
Descriptors: Community Control, Educational Quality, Intermediate Administrative Units, Local Government
PDF pending restorationPennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, Harrisburg. – 1976
This publication presents a lengthy study of the intermediate educational unit system in the state of Pennsylvania. Purpose of the study was to describe in a comprehensive manner the programmatic, operational, and fiscal aspects of intermediate units, to examine the significant interactions between intermediate units and other agencies…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedStephens, E. Robert – FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy, 2000
Thanks to the economies of scale inherent in networks of education services agencies (ESAs), these agencies can provide small rural schools with access to programs, services, and technical assistance that otherwise might be unavailable. Typical core services of ESAs, historic roots, evaluation of ESAs in Iowa and Texas, and trends in ESA funding…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Cooperation
Bimber, Bruce – 1993
It is possible to give a concrete meaning to the usually vague concept of decentralization by examining four core components. First, at the crux of decentralization is a downward shift in decision-making power. Administrative decentralization entails shifts internal to the institution. Political decentralization shifts authority to external forces…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1979
The essential elements of the Texas Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) network are described and examined to determine where Texas is in terms of institutionalizing EBCE. First described are the identification of incentives for both institutional and individual participation in the statewide effort and the plans to communicate knowledge…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Agents, Delivery Systems, Diffusion
TRILLINGHAM, C.C. – 1961
THE INTERMEDIATE OR COUNTY AREA OF EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY PROVIDES DIRECT SERVICES TO SMALL LOCAL DISTRICTS AND CONSULTATIVE SERVICES TO LARGER DISTRICTS, WHILE PERFORMING REPORTING FUNCTIONS TO STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION. SINCE GROWTH IN POPULATION AND DISTRICT CONSOLIDATION AND REORGANIZATION ARE GREATLY REDUCING THE NEED FOR DIRECT…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Consultation Programs, Coordination, County School Districts
Hickrod, G. Alan; Hubbard, Ben C. – 1968
This paper (1) provides background on types of State aid to education and describes how they work, (2) discusses the existing expenditure structure in Illinois, (3) describes and analyzes the fixed foundation (Strayer-Haig), variable foundation, percentage equalization, and resource equalizer formulae used for equalization aid in the United…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Equalization Aid
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1968
Basic needs of children and youth which cannot be provided by small rural schools could be realized by combining the resources and pupils of a number of local districts. Four types of organization are presented as possibilities for providing cooperative educational services: (1) autonomous districts with line functions; (2) semi-autonomous…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agencies, Classification, Cooperative Planning
Saunders, Nancy; Franklin, Bill – 1977
This annotated bibliography was prepared to aid in an exploration of the ways in which the administrative structure of an institution influences the quality of undergraduate teaching. The specific focus is on the academic department/division and the department/division chair as the crucial administrative unit and administrator. The bibliography…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrators, Annotated Bibliographies
Isenberg, Robert M., Ed. – 1967
The "Journal of State School Systems Development" is designed for the regular and orderly reporting of information and developments related to specialized school government as a system for accomplishing public educational purposes. Its issues include reports of State and Federal legislative action, program implications, special projects, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Role, Cooperative Programs, County School Districts
Roberts, Charles T. – 1974
The handbooks in the Office of Education State Educational Records and Reports series have been designed to facilitate the collection and maintenance of data for decisionmaking at the local level and the reporting of educational information to others. Described first in this publication is a program structure for a local education agency which…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Classification, Data Collection, Decision Making
