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Download full textMyers, Dorothy; Stonehill, Robert – Education Research Consumer Guide, 1993
An overview of school-based management (SBM) and the issues involved are provided in this document. Information is offered on the following topics: the advantages and liabilities of SBM; its effect on the roles of the school board, superintendent, and district office; decision-making processes; elements of SBM implementation; examples of three…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
Mulholland, 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
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
Bowyer, Charles; And Others – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1989
School restructuring requires the critical assessment of all aspects of the educational system, including the goals of schooling; organization and management at the local, district, and state levels, curriculum; instruction; roles and responsibilities of educational personnel, students, and parents; school finance; and education regulation and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Peer reviewedNiemiec, Richard P., Ed.; Walberg, Herbert J., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1993
The Chicago (Illinois) public school system has been undergoing a major restructuring that has shifted responsibility for running the schools to local school councils. The nine articles of this issue bring together opinions and research of a diverse group of authors with multiple perspectives on the effort. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Community Control, Community Involvement
