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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
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
Download full textBerhanu, 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
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
Anne West; David Wolfe; Basma B. Yaghi – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
School-based education in England has undergone significant changes since 2010, with a huge expansion of academies, schools outside local authority control, funded directly by central government. Academies and local authority (LA) maintained schools are subject to different legislative and regulatory frameworks. This paper focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Secondary Schools, School District Autonomy
Jodie Pennacchia – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Although all young people in England are entitled to a full-time, state-funded education suitable to their needs, every year some are without a school place and must be found one through local fair access protocols. This paper uses the enactment of fair access protocols in one local authority to examine the impacts of policy shifts to increase the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Access to Education, Educational Policy
Stevenson, Lars; Honingh, Marlies; Neeleman, Annemarie – School Leadership & Management, 2021
Over the last decade the governance of primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands has by no means become simpler. This paper sketches recent policy developments and their consequences for the leadership of Boards of Multiple Schools (BMSs) and their school leaders. Thereof we describe the challenges BMSs in the Netherlands currently face to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governing Boards, Governance, Networks
Yuan Teng; Kwok Kuen Tsang – Educational Studies, 2024
Educational decentralisation has been implemented globally. However, few studies have compared the effects of different decentralisation strategies on students' academic achievement in diverse cultural contexts. Using data from 49 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, this study attempts to fill…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Academic Achievement, Teacher Participation
Crawford, Megan; Maxwell, Bronwen; Coldron, John; Simkins, Tim – Educational Review, 2022
Most research to date about the English government's policy to make schools independent of local authorities (LAs) has looked at the "macro" level of national policy and at the "micro" level of the institution. The study of which this article is a part explores changes at the "meso" level of the locality. Over a…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Ladner, Matthew; Burke, Lindsey; Gardiner, Nile – Heritage Foundation, 2020
Freed of the shackles of the EU, Brexit offers a valuable window of opportunity for the United Kingdom, America's closest friend and ally, to reassess and rethink existing policy in a whole range of areas, from defense and foreign policy to immigration and cybersecurity. Brexit offers tremendous opportunities for innovation not only in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation
Sinnema, Claire; Nieveen, Nienke; Priestley, Mark – Curriculum Journal, 2020
The proposed Curriculum for Wales 2022 presents a bold new vision for curriculum, teaching and learning. Together with its focus on four key purposes, it affords substantially more flexibility and autonomy to teachers and schools, positions learners as central to curriculum decision making, promotes active forms of pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Professional Autonomy
Oosterhoff, Arda; Oenema-Mostert, Ineke; Minnaert, Alexander – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
Early childhood teachers worldwide feel that their ability to act according to their professional knowledge and values is constrained. This sense of constraint is commonly attributed to the pressures of accountability policies, aimed at ensuring and improving educational quality. By law, Dutch schools are free to choose how they design their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Autonomy, Early Childhood Teachers, Foreign Countries
