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Download full textHixson, Judson – Policy Briefs, 1990
School-based management and teacher empowerment are consistent elements of school restructuring efforts nationwide. These developments have grown out of frustration over the failure of centralized efforts to significantly improve schools and increase support for individual empowerment. Teacher empowerment is based on four assumptions: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
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
