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Direct linkCarlos Rojas; Wieland Wermke – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This article analyses the Swedish case of the government's funding for equity, which annually provides over 600 million euros to improve equity. Being one of the largest funding schemes ever for work towards educational equity it also provides full autonomy for local education authorities (LEAs) to use the money at their discretion. By studying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Federal Government, Federal Aid
Keddie, 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
Cathy Wylie – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
New Zealand's state schools have been self-managing since 1989, with government agencies playing a more limited role in terms of support than in other countries. This radical change was intended to improve education and make it more responsive and equitable. These goals have not been achieved. In 2018, the Labour-led government asked for an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, School Administration, Institutional Autonomy
Download full textSchueler, Beth – State Education Standard, 2023
State takeovers of struggling school systems represent some of the most contentious policy decisions in education. The transfer of decision-making power from a locally elected school board to the state is often undertaken with the goal of dramatically improving student academic achievement in districts that have been persistently low performing…
Descriptors: State School District Relationship, School District Autonomy, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Wilson, Camille M.; Nickson, Dana; Ransom, Kimberly C. – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Inner-city school systems serving marginalized populations around the world are hindered by undemocratic and anti-public, political forces given global neoliberalism. This paper highlights a three-year case study of community organizers' efforts to resist such forces and increase school access, equity, and local control in Detroit, MI (USA).…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Social Justice, African American Leadership, Mothers
New Localism in the Neoliberal Era: Local District Response to Voluntary Open-School Markets in Ohio
Lee, Jin – SAGE Open, 2021
Local education governance has allowed neighborhood schools to offer community-oriented curricula and activities, and public schools have been operated to serve only residents' children within the defined areas. The rise of neoliberalism may, however, undermine political foundations of the traditional political systems. This article explores how…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, School Districts, School District Autonomy, Neoliberalism
Wieland Wermke; Ronny Freier; Daniel Nordholm – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This article aims to undertake a comparative investigation of school administration to understand further the frames of curriculum making. School administration is an under-illuminated aspect of curriculum research. The paper commences from the notion that, in mass education, a school system is operationalized by many schools, which are coupled to…
Descriptors: School Administration, Foreign Countries, Decision Making, School Districts
Maduakolam Ireh; Ogochukwu T. lbeneme – Education Leadership Review, 2022
As schools continue to battle with calls for reform and restructuring, understanding important aspects of change leadership is needed in explaining factors that facilitate successful implementation of planned changes in schools. Certain personal and school district characteristics have been reported in the literature as having impact or influence…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School District Autonomy, Administrator Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
Hashim, Ayesha K.; Torres, Chris; Kumar, Jacqueline M. – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Although policies aiming to increase school-based autonomy are commonplace, we know little about how school actors use autonomy to improve organizational performance in varied contexts. This paper surfaces perspectives from school leaders and teachers on the effectiveness of autonomy and describes how these perspectives vary across schools. We use…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, School Effectiveness, Administrator Attitudes, Principals
Berhanu, Kelemu Zelalem – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2023
The purpose of the study was to investigate the level of practice, challenges, and prospects of SBM in Ethiopian schools. A holistic multiple-case study was utilized. In addition to document review, the researcher collected data via semi-structured interviews with maximum diversity sampling from eight participants. Thematic analysis was employed…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, School Based Management, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Mette Liljenberg; Åsa Hirsh; Anette Jahnke; Åsa Karlsson Pérez – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
In the decentralized Swedish school system, the local education authority (LEA) level has an important position when it comes to school governance. This article takes a micro-level perspective on principals' perceptions of autonomy and control as they navigate local school administration in their front-line work in low - socio-economic status…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment
Kylie Anglin – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
School districts are traditionally subject to a variety of state regulations on educational inputs. Absent regulations, policymakers fear that districts will make inappropriate decisions. However, it is also possible that regulations hinder schools from optimizing student learning. This article tests the salience of these hypotheses by estimating…
Descriptors: State Regulation, School District Autonomy, State School District Relationship, Government School Relationship
Lopez, Trish A.; Riesco, Holly Sheppard; Goering, Christian Z. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Education reform in the United States has unwisely focused attention on standards and accountability to the state as determined by standardized testing (Berliner & Biddle, 1995; Mehta, 2013). Stemming from the emphasis on standards-based accountability are the ideas of rapid school "turnaround" and the state's role in this process…
Descriptors: Racism, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Ramiel, Hemy; Lefstein, Adam – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2022
This paper uses a case study of an Israeli teacher leadership initiative to explore a mode of educational governance that employs 'bottom-up' logic and discourse. The authors analyse the origins of this initiative, and -- through a policy-making ethnography of the initiative's enactment at the district level -- show how it is sustained and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Governance, Case Studies
Arnzen, Cameron J.; Houston, David M. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
Despite a long history of local control of schools, educational issues have become increasingly contested at higher levels of government as battles are fought in state and federal venues and along partisan lines. In light of this change as well as recent battles over school responses to COVID-19 and schools' roles in combating systemic racism, we…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, Preferences, Decision Making, Politics of Education
