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Download full textMcNeir, Gwennis – 1993
This digest examines the tenets of outcome-based education (OBE), outlines some of its primary criticisms and challenges, and describes successful OBE models implemented in various school districts. Outcome-based education (OBE) is one model for restructuring currently being examined nationwide. In contrast to traditional educational practices…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Change
Bowers, Bruce C. – 1990
More than 20 states have adopted some form of regulation-relief legislation for their public schools. Two major issues confront the movement to deregulate the schools. The first is that there have been surprisingly few takers of regulation waivers; and second, whether, even if current deregulation efforts are successful, the end result is really…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Peer reviewedDeegan, William L., Ed.; Gollattscheck, James F., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1985
This collection of articles addresses major questions of community college governance and highlights some of the changes that have taken place in governance over the past decade. The issue contains: (1) "State Power in a New Era: Threats to Local Authority," by Dale Tillery and James L. Wattenbarger; (2) "Power on the Periphery: Faculty and…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Administration, Community Colleges, Governance
Hadderman, Margaret L. – 1988
Local school districts have gradually lost policy-making discretion to state legislatures and bureaucracies. State-mandated reforms of school finance and academic standards (especially those involving curricular alignment with standardized tests) tend to diminish teacher autonomy and creativity, disrupt school climate, and ignore individual school…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Central Office Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, School District Autonomy
Siegel, Dorothy – 2003
This digest examines a completed pilot program in performance-driven budgeting (PDB) in the New York City public-school system. PDB links school-level budgeting and school planning; that is, decisions about resources must be aligned with school-developed instructional-improvement plans. The digest highlights how PDB came about; its primary goal;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Budgets, Educational Finance
Ahearn, Eileen – 2001
This digest examines the unique nature of public charter schools, explains their obligations to students with disabilities, and presents the results of two federally funded studies of special education in charter schools. It finds wide variations among the 37 states which permit charter schools. The digest stresses the importance of the legal…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making, Disabilities
Thompson, David C.; And Others – 1989
This monograph examines four plans for state funding of educational facilities: total control; 50-50 flat grants; full state funding; and equalization. The trend in many states is to become increasingly more involved in helping local school districts with capital outlay for facility requirements. Recent litigation suggests that capital outlay is…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
