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A. Chris Torres; Sandy Frost Waldron; Jason Burns – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
This mixed-method study examines Michigan's Partnership policy for school turnaround, which positions the district and superintendents as key policy implementation actors. We first interviewed 21 of 35 Partnership superintendents/leaders across Michigan and surveyed teachers to understand the initial response to the turnaround policy and the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Superintendents, School Districts, School Turnaround
Brian Jones; Julie Cassie; Caryn Ward – State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center, 2024
Context matters in implementation. The Lenawee ISD (LISD) in Michigan navigated implementation through major changes in its school district's administration and the COVID-19 pandemic. The district highlighted in the impact story experienced leadership change in the District Superintendent position and three school principal positions. The district…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Program Implementation, School Districts
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Alfred Kweku Ampah-Mensah; Rosemary Seiwah Bosu; Michael Amakyi; Wisdom Kwaku Agbevanu – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper reports on a study that explored the roles of district and community-based education structures (DCES) in preparing, implementing, and communicating education policy initiatives at the district and school levels. A descriptive multiple-case survey design involving three purposefully selected districts was employed. The study used a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Community Education, Administrative Organization
Moon, Jodi – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2018
This research brief is Part I of a four-part series that studies the implementation and impact of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) decision to decentralize in the 1990s. This first part describes how decentralization was enacted in HISD. It examines the implementation of decentralization at HISD. The process that HISD originally…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Change, Educational Administration, School Districts
Rios, Francisco Javier Larrain – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the effects of a school improvement project involving Distributed leadership (DL), a perspective for studying or developing organization leadership through the interaction of organizational members and activities. This research was part of a larger DL Project taking place in York City School District, PA, which sought to…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Participative Decision Making, Change, Leadership
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Moon, Jodi Saxton – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2018
This case was developed for use with future school and district leaders in an educational setting. There are several topics of discussion that can be developed, including but not limited to decentralization as a large-scale reform, policy implementation, the superintendency, and urban schools. The setting is a fictional southwestern urban school…
Descriptors: School Districts, Models, Administrative Organization, Superintendents
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Bolaji, Stephen Dele; Campbell-Evans, Glenda; Gray, Jan Rosemary – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2019
This study examined the managerial structure of Universal Basic Education (UBE) policy embraced by the governments of African countries towards ensuring free, compulsory and uninterrupted access to 9-year formal education for every child of school-age by 2050. Previous studies on UBE policy implementation in Nigeria reported unequal educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Compulsory Education
Anderson, Leslie M.; Butler, Alisha; Palmiter, Andrea; Arcaira, Erikson – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2016
Today, efforts are underway across the country to transform teacher evaluation into a useful tool for improving teaching and learning. These efforts are supported by state statutes as well as by improvements in state and local data systems and the development of new student assessments. In 2015, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, School Districts, Public Schools, Program Design
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2016
Comprehensive teacher evaluation systems are a core element of current state and local strategies to support improved teaching and learning in elementary and secondary education in the United States. The Study of Emerging Teacher Evaluation Systems provides descriptive information on the design and early implementation of teacher evaluation…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, School Districts, Public Schools, Program Design
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Ellis, Chad D. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2016
Connecticut's Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) program is in its early stages of implementation. This study examined how local school districts implemented TEAM and identified factors that affected implementation. It was based on interviews with twenty-two participants at the state, district, and local school levels. The intentions of the…
Descriptors: State Policy, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Implementation, School Districts
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Malen, Betty; Rice, Jennifer King; Matlach, Lauren K. B.; Bowsher, Amanda; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney; Hyde, Laura H. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: This article seeks to enhance our understanding of the ever-present challenge of developing organizational capacity to implement complex education reform initiatives. We analyze the strategies in one large metropolitan education system used to address the district-level and site-level capacity challenges that surfaced as they implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Capacity Building, Teacher Salaries, Incentives
Lake, Robin; Posamentier, Jordan; Denice, Patrick; Hill, Paul – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2016
The portfolio strategy is a change strategy for public education in a district or metropolitan area. It is founded on the idea of re-missioning government agencies from rigid bureaucratic entities that mostly manage compliance requirements and interest group politics to a new role: overseeing performance and a diverse range of school choices…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Implementation, Portfolios (Background Materials), Change Strategies
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Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: Scholars widely acknowledge that politics help explain why policies are adopted and how they play out in states, districts, and schools. To date, political analyses of education reform tend to isolate a particular policy and examine the politics of its adoption or implementation, but pay less attention to the effects of the politics of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Politics of Education, School Districts
Frizzell, Matthew; Rentner, Diane Stark; Kober, Nancy; Braun, Matthew; Ferguson, Maria – Center on Education Policy, 2017
This report serves as a legacy document for the Ford Foundation's More and Better Learning Time (MBLT) initiative. It summarizes the approaches to and outcomes and challenges of successful MBLT strategies around the country. The report includes data from a survey for Ford Foundation MBLT grantees across the country and from case studies in Denver,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Case Studies, Grants
Fuller, Bruce; Tobben, Laura – Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2014
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was enacted by the California legislature in June 2013 and fundamentally changes the distribution of education dollars to districts. The legislation simplifies the formula for sending money to districts and now takes into account the higher costs of educating certain groups of students, specifically those…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts
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