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Direct linkKeddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Newton, Paul; da Costa, Jose – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on the policy and practice contexts for school autonomy and twenty-first century learning in Canadian provinces. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reports on an analysis of policies in Canadian provinces (particularly the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan). The authors review policies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Download full textGalway, Gerald; Sheppard, Bruce; Wiens, John; Brown, Jean – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2013
Across Canada there have been numerous recent examples of incidents where the political and ideological interests of provincial governments have run counter to the mandates of school districts. In this pan-Canadian study, focus groups were conducted with school board trustees and school district superintendents to examine the relationships between…
Descriptors: Governance, Centralization, School District Autonomy, School Districts
Henley, Dick; Young, Jon – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2008
This paper provides an analysis of current educational finance debates in Manitoba within a broader discussion of the essential character of public education in Canada. Arguing that public accessibility and equity, public funding, and public control constitute three touchstones of public education, the paper describes the Manitoba debates over…
Descriptors: Taxes, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Boards of Education
Fallon, Gerald; Paquette, Jerald – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2008
This critical policy study provides an understanding of the different actors--individuals, interest groups, and other organizations--involved in influencing and defining, through their narratives what public education in BC ought to be, thus capturing the core intellectual dispositions that informed and determined the kind of policy problems that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, School Choice, Accountability
Bargen, Peter F. – Education Canada, 1977
Lists and comments upon some basic and critical local powers that school boards should have in order to enjoy that degree of autonomy and flexibility consistent with our constitutional constraints. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Responsibility, Local Government, School District Autonomy
Loken, G. – Alberta J Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Organizational Change
Peer reviewedGallagher, Daniel G.; Wetzel, Kurt – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1980
Describes and evaluates the effectiveness of multi-employer bargaining in education in Saskatchewan. The relative advantages and disadvantages of centralized negotiations as a means of reducing union "whipsawing" tactics are examined and some observations are made concerning the establishment of multi-unit board bargaining structures in…
Descriptors: Centralization, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Renihan, P. J.; Renihan, F. I. – 1979
This paper describes the construction and application of a framework to investigate control at the policy-making level in education. The minutes of the regular meetings of 21 school boards in British Columbia were analyzed for the period January to December of 1975. Construction of the framework involved (1) definitions of control and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Catholic Schools, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDavidson, Dan – History and Social Science Teacher, 1988
Discusses the problems of providing a uniform educational system that would enable children of the rural Yukon to move into other Canadian school systems with minimal difficulty. States that northern communities increasingly desire more control over local education. Argues that schools must address both local and national issues to adequately…
Descriptors: Community Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools
Chapman, Judith D., Ed. – 1990
School-based management refers to a form of educational administration in which the school becomes the primary unit for decision-making. The book is structured into five parts. In part 1, international developments in school-based decision-making and management are documented and analyzed. Described are developments in Australia, Canada, France,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Governance, School Based Management
Gill, Aurelien – Northian, 1975
The major proposals of the National Indian Brotherhood which were stated in their 1972 policy paper are briefly reviewed. What has already been undertaken in the Quebec Region to meet them and what is planned within the next 5 years are also discussed. (NQ)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Educational Policy, Educational Responsibility
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
This paper addresses concerns with equity in education financing in Alberta, Canada. It describes the major issues involved in funding education and proposes alternative ways of addressing them. The issues are the following: (1) every student should have access to an education which meets his/her needs, but the costs of this education varies…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Equal Education
Coleman, Peter – 1971
This study examines the purpose of the school district structure and the manner in which it reflects the expectations of citizens for their school system. The document focusses on the community involvement and financial aspects of reorganization and examines (1) the basic pattern of school district reorganization in North America to find some…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Educational Finance, Enrollment
