Describes role of local coordinator in providing vocational teacher supervision, thus allowing state supervisors of agricultural education more time for their other responsibilities. (DM)

Although California schools are experiencing cutbacks, the cause may be declining enrollment rather than Proposition 13. A less debatable result of Proposition 13 is greater state control of education's purse strings. (Author/JM)

Outlines the legal basis of dominion-provincial relations and of provincial-local relations in education, and compares these with relations between governments in the United States in five separate areas. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the increased influence of state legislative bodies on college governance and examines the need for effective lobbying on the part of college administrators. Provides guidelines for lobbying, recommending familiarity with key calendar dates, committee structures, the chairperson's power, the party in control, and the flow of legislation.…

One cannot gauge or understand the performance of an educational system by examining the output of that system alone. Presents and discusses four constructs--effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness, and fidelity--which relate the output of an educational system to the important educational, economic, political and social factors which influence…

"The School Administrator" recently invited AASA members, as well as some local board members and state-level administrators, to share examples of policies or actions exemplifying the changing relationship between state government and local schools. Officials from West Virginia, Illinois, Georgia, New York, Virginia, Louisiana, Wyoming, Ohio,…

Examines Jersey City (New Jersey) Superintendent Franklin Williams' efforts to thwart the state's takeover of his school system, which is facing academic and managerial bankruptcy. An inset mentions other state takeovers or interventions in Texas, New Mexico, and Kentucky school districts facing financial and accreditation difficulties. (MLH)

Neither hyperrationalist nor decentralist reform strategies will seriously improve educational quality. Successful reform strategies incorporate three dimensions: the authorized movement, regional or localist responses, and conversation, involving changes in school rhetoric. States must create a context for developing organizational competence at…

A former governor's aide offers seven rules to help educators gain access to the seat of state budgetary and political power. (MLF)

North Carolina's School Improvement and Accountability Act of 1989 recognized "input" models of earlier legislation and regulation had inhibited local educators' efforts to achieve academic success. "Outcomes" model was adopted. Schools were encouraged to seek waivers from state laws and regulations that had prevented them from…

New Jersey students must pass high school proficiency test to receive state-endorsed high school diploma. Unless 75 percent of third, sixth, eighth grade students in every school score at or above state-prescribed minimal proficiency level in reading, writing, mathematics, school district will flunk state certification standards and face state…

In Illinois, the combination of aging structures, local taxpayer resistance to increased property taxes, and increased costs have all affected local school infrastructure feasibility. Proposes four steps districts should be required to take to meet their fiduciary responsibilities. (eight references) (MLF)

The purpose of the eleventh amendment was to protect the states from the federal government by limiting the power of the federal courts. Reviews litigation regarding whether a local school district is cloaked with the state's eleventh amendment immunity. (86 references) (MLF)