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Peer reviewedWalker, Elaine M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2002
Studied the implementation of school-based management in 30 of the poorest school districts in New Jersey (the Abbott districts). Findings show that genuine autonomy has been usurped by increased state power and authority, and that state elites allow little opportunity for capacity building at the district level. The level of democratization has…
Descriptors: Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Poverty, Professional Autonomy
