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Download full textMulholland, Lori A.; Bierlein, Louann – 1993
A charter school is an autonomous entity that operates on the basis of a charter or contract between the individual or group (teachers, parents, and others) that organizes the school and its sponsor (local school board, county, or state board). Once granted a charter, the school receives educational formula-driven funding as though it were a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Duttweiler, Patricia Cloud – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1989
A number of researchers and national commission reports have recommended increased autonomy of public schools through school-site management. School-based management entails focusing the full resources of the system at school level and allowing decisions to be make at that level where faculty and principal constitute a natural management team.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Carlos, Lisa; Izu, Jo Ann – Policy Briefs, 1993
Since the 1960s, schools have relied on federal and state programs to provide the extra resources and services needed to help certain categories of disadvantaged students catch up with their classmates. While many credit these categorical programs with expanding educational opportunities, increasing numbers question the effectiveness of this ad…
Descriptors: Accountability, Categorical Aid, Decentralization, Educationally Disadvantaged
Odden, Allan; Odden, Eleanor – Brief to Policymakers, 1994
In the Australian state of Victoria, virtually all decisions about spending, curriculum, and personnel are made at the school level. Victoria's experience in developing a system of school-based management (SBM) and shared decision making offers a perspective on school reform efforts in the United States. Underlying the school restructuring trends…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1996
On January 31, 1996, Pioneer Institute Executive Director James A. Peyser delivered an address to the Boston Economic Club, in which he proposed radical reforms to the structure of public education. This publication contains an edited transcript of the speech. The speech argues that after 30 years of stagnation and decline, only fundamental…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Charter Schools, Competition
Oswald, Lori Jo – OSSC Bulletin, 1995
School-based management (SBM), the decentralization of decision-making authority to the school site, comes in many variations. However, all forms of SBM require a rethinking of how and where budgeting, curriculum, and personnel decisions are made. This bulletin provides an overview of what SBM is and how it is implemented by summarizing some of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role
