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Download full textLindle, Jane Clark – 1992
The 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) provided, among other measures, a new governance body for schools called "School Councils." These school-based, decision-making councils are composed of parents and teachers and headed by principals. This paper presents findings of a study that explored the effects of KERA's provision for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Lindle, Jane Clark; Gale, Bruce S.; Curry-White, Brenda – 1996
The 1994 and 1995 School-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Surveys were conducted in the fall of each of those years for the Study of Education Policy. This report compares the 1994 and 1995 responses to three questions: (1) What do people think of the effectiveness of SBDM? (2) Who is involved in the SBDM decisions? and (3) What are councils doing?…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Participative Decision Making
Peer reviewedLindle, Jane Clark – Educational Leadership, 1996
Kentucky's school-based decision-making councils now function in 66% of the state's schools. Since 1991-92, these schools have learned that their councils must represent their local constituencies, gain the support of local political structures, shun legalism, concentrate on substantive education issues, and develop a democratically based…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Cooperation, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLindle, Jane Clark; Shrock, James – NASSP Bulletin, 1993
Kentucky's 1990 Education Reform Act instituted new governance structure creating school-based councils composed of parent and teacher representatives who participate with principals in decisions involving eight major areas. School councils' role has remained ambiguous in personnel matters. Model presented here enhances principal's decision-making…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Lindle, Jane Clark – 1998
Kentucky has witnessed many changes in educational administration. An assessment of those changes, with a focus on school boards, was done. School boards are not efficient bodies and this is not a problem. If efficiency was the top concern, then minimizing time and costs would be dominant and schools would suffer. School boards are not…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLindle, Jane Clark – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1994
Reviews Kentucky's efforts to increase family and community involvement in its public school reform. These efforts include a new structure for the traditional elementary school; Family Resource Centers; and school-based decision making. Also shares some parents' perspectives on how these changes are shaping their children's school experiences. (BB)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
