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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The 20 education service centers in Texas are regional institutions designed to assist school districts with quality ideas, services, information, and teaching materials. This plan sets out the authority, governance, operations, and services that are to be provided by the service centers to school districts along with guidelines and standards.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Education Service Centers, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textStephens, E. Robert; And Others – 1967
An extensive study, reported in three separately published sections, was made to determine primary aspects of the current consolidation and redistricting of local school districts. Basic procedures used to gather information included a survey of related literature, visitations to county and intermediate educational agencies in Iowa and other…
Descriptors: County Officials, County School Districts, Financial Support, Intermediate Administrative Units
Stephens, E. Robert; And Others – 1967
Based upon the historical review and case studies reported in the first section, section II develops a rationale for restructuring the county school system or middle echelon unit of school administration in the State of Iowa and for determining the need for a unit of school government operating between local school districts and the State…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, County School Districts, Financial Support, Intermediate Administrative Units
Stephens, E. Robert; And Others – 1967
Major aspects of the project are reviewed in four chapters: (1) An introductory review of the study's background; (2) the major needs of public elementary and secondary education in Iowa and the need for a new type of educational service agency; (3) major recommendations of the study, discussed under 10 categories; and (4) major benefits resulting…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, County School Districts, Educational Benefits
Stephens, E. Robert – 1975
This report emphasizes the major organizational and program patterns of the regional education service agencies (RESAs) operating in Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, Michigan, New York, and Oregon. The State laws governing RESA units and the units' organizational patterns and their…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Stephens, E. Robert; And Others – 1967
The appendix to the study illustrates the three instruments used for gathering data and the four sets of statistical tabulations serving as a basis for the study's recommendations. The instruments are (1) a questionnaire regarding selected characteristics of Iowa county school systems; (2) a questionnaire regarding alternative methods for the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Agency Cooperation, County School Districts, Curriculum Development
