A new planning and development approach is emerging in the five county Central New York region, an area having a highly complex, fluid, and ill-coordinated decision making structure. Three regional agencies are active here: the Metropolital Development Association of Syracuse and Onondaga County; the Central New York Regional Planning and…

Research on District Decentralized Title I ESEA programs reveals conflict among school officials, community representatives, and community agencies. School officials mistrust and poorly communicate with community representatives. Community agencies compete for the economic resources brought by decentralization, while overlooking the main objective…

This paper is concerned with the conceptual problems of developing an administrative planning system for local school districts. Specific planning procedures will be published later as part of a completed PPBS model. Definitions of certain concepts lead to a "Typology of Planning Behavior," which distinguishes three levels of planning…

The manual is designed to serve as a comprehensive guide for curriculum directors or state affiliated associations interested in setting up summer experience programs through which students above the age of 16 participate in an occupational therapy department as "apprentice staff members." Separate sections deal with the following details: (1)…

An evaluation of the Educational Diagnostic and Planning Center of Cheyenne is presented. Data and summaries report administrator, teacher, and parent opinion and reaction for spring of 1967, summer 1967, and spring 1968. In general, the responses were reported as favorable, but the needs of decreasing the time lag between referral, treatment, and…

The purpose of the paper is to define for potential users of vocational education management information systems a quantitative analysis technique and its utilization to facilitate more effective planning of vocational education programs. Defining linear programming (LP) as a management technique used to solve complex resource allocation problems…

This guide for the development of local curricula is intended for use by teachers concerned with the study of industry at any grade level K-12. The basic premise of the document is that a general knowledge of industry, as an institution in society, is essential to all students, and the source of the content is industry itself. The identified body…

The Youth Guidance Systems' (YGS) major goal is the encouragement and facilitation of considered decision making by every student. YGS seeks to establish goals, programs, and evaluation procedures which ensure continued change and relevance. Four goals have been stated for YGS (two student-centered and two staff-centered) to: facilitate decision…

The bulletin defines cooperative office work experience as an educational program, involving a working relationship between the school and the employer, which prepares students for selected office occupations. The benefits of providing work experience for students while still in high school and suggestions for implementing such programs are…

This report explains accreditation by contract and sets forth procedures for implementing such a contract. An accreditation contract is executed when a comprehensive, continuous, long-range plan for meeting the educational needs of students is adopted and formulated into a contract between a local board of education and the Colorado State Board of…

At this Region VIII conference called by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 150 participants from six western states met to discuss how career education needs of youth and adults and the needs of the economy are being met by schools in their communities, to determine the role that vocational education is playing in the process, and…

This Region I conference called by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, brought together 240 participants from six New England states to discuss how career education needs of youth and adults and the needs of the economy are being met, to determine the role of vocational education in the process, and to identify methods of redirecting…

The Vermont Regional Community College Commission was established to oversee the pre-planning phase of the OEO grant to establish a community college demonstration model. The VRCCC developed a demonstration model of the community college system through 3 regional sites responsible for developing community college operations in Vermont communities.…

This paper shows that Garfinkel and Gramlich's conclusion about the average performance of the contractors is not supported by the data. The discussion focuses on three issues: (1) The study was conducted in such a way that performance contracting schools and the comparison schools were generally not comparable in terms of initial achievement,…

This publication presents in summary form the development of the two end products of the Trenton Title III project: (1) an educational planning system called STEP (System for Tranton's Educational Planning) and (2) a new planning office, the Division of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. Included is the outline of the planning cycle, a discussion…