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Mackler, Bernard – Journal of Negro Education, 1976
Notes that the objective of this urban education community involvement program is not met, but the objective of hiring minority members as paraprofessionals and professionals is met. The question is raised as to whether this is a means of heading off community involvement, district control, and/or local control. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Political Influences, Political Issues
Dewar, Margaret E. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Some states use subsidies, grants, and other public monies to rejuvenate lagging rural economies, but without sound economic analysis to guide these efforts money may go to projects that do not achieve economic development goals. Minnesota's Iron Range programs illustrate what happens when economic analysis is sacrificed in political tugs-of-war.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Economic Research, Political Influences