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Download full textRebekah Skelton – Texas Education Review, 2025
When the state of Texas took control of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in the summer of 2023, it marked the end of a multi-year legal battle between the district and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the beginning of a community-led campaign to re-take control of the district. Since, students and community groups have rallied to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, School District Autonomy
Peer reviewedPilo, Marvin R. – Education and Urban Society, 1975
Political developments with respect to two public school systems are examined in terms of two theoretical models. When viewed from the analytical perspective used here, similarities between the two cities with respect to progress in decentralization begin to emerge.
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Comparative Analysis, Decentralization
Peer reviewedLaNoue, George R.; Smith, Bruce L. R. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1971
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, Community Control, Decentralization
Peer reviewedDouglas, Leonard – Urban Education, 1971
A discussion of the educational problems of big-city school systems which defines the community school concept or philosophy, and emphasizes the role of an energetic school-home partnership composed of the community, parents, leaders, and educators. (JM)
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Family School Relationship
Mills, Nicolaus – 1971
This essay focuses on the politics of public education for the disadvantaged. Specifically, an attempt is made to describe the conditions under which the disadvantaged have sought to change the public schools by adopting one of two political strategies--integration or community control. The discussion of the first strategy, integration, includes…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Control, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Zeigler, Harmon – 1974
Even though public school districts are structured with the expectation of responsive governance, most school boards are not particularly responsive to their constituents. School boards from politically contentious districts tend to be more responsive, but they have even less success challenging the dominance of the superintendent than do less…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Community Control, Democratic Values
Feldman, Sandra – 1968
Although the break-up of the unresponsive school bureaucracy in New York will be a move toward greater accountability, the basic question is: will this raise achievement levels? Its possible advantagees include: the increase in both the operating efficiency of the schools and the responsiveness of schools to the lay public; increased student fate…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Control, Decentralization, Educational Opportunities
Ravitz, Mel – 1970
If needed significant educational change is to be achieved, some countervailing power source capable of confronting administrative bureaucracy and making it conform to the present needs of the public must be established. Community control, the subdivision of the large system into appropriate communities and the control of each community by its…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Community Control, Educational Change
