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Download full textFirestone, William A.; Wilson, Bruce L. – 1981
Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESAs)--agencies between the state and local level--are an important resource for helping local educators cope with a variety of pressures from an increasingly complex environment. They do so by performing two functions. Political linkage provides knowledge about the impacts of mandates on specific districts…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Linking Agents
Firestone, William A. – 1981
A descriptive study provides information in seven sections on regional educational service agencies (RESA's) in Pennsylvania (where they are called Intermediate Units or IU's). The information is derived from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, various IU's, and initial introductory interviews with current and former state department staff.…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFirestone, William A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1989
School district use of state educational reform is reviewed. Active users want to and can respond positively. A dominant coalition, which believes it can set its own agenda and sees the reforms as ways of meeting its own ends, promotes willingness. Systems for managing key change functions/linkages are essential. (TJH)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Firestone, William A.; Nagle, Brianna – 1993
When New Jersey passed the Quality Education Act to equalize expenditures between rich and poor school districts, it added a level of regulatory oversight to the "special needs districts," the 30 poorest districts in the state. This paper describes that oversight system and the additional paperwork burdens it created for those districts.…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Firestone, William A.; And Others – 1983
To learn more about the Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESA), Research for Better Schools initiated a multi-year study of RESAs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This report specifically describes local educators' perceptions about RESA services and the content areas in which RESAs offered help. It also suggests how successful service…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Education Service Centers
Peer reviewedFirestone, William A.; And Others – Teachers College Record, 1992
A discussion of recent trends in state educational reform stresses the importance of addressing two challenges: teaching all students higher order thinking and developing more systematic, coherent policies. The article describes the challenges, examines how state policies in the 1980s addressed them and how districts responded, and suggests future…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
