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Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1989
School/Community-Based Management (SCBM) improves the quality of education by providing schools with administrative flexibility and by empowering each school's community to make and implement decisions that will directly affect its members and students. To help individual school communities that are considering adopting SCBM understand how shared…
Descriptors: Community Control, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Moss, Carolyn J.; Roberts, Deborah D. – The University of Virginia News Letter, 1989
Virginia's distinctive political and legislative tradition makes its intergovernmental relations particularly challenging. Following the Dillon Rule, a 19th century legal doctrine that limits local governments to exercising only those powers specifically authorized by statue, Virginia is the only state that maintains an independent city system,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Control, Institutional Autonomy, Institutional Cooperation
Clinchy, Evans – Equity and Choice, 1989
Describes the plan to decentralize all public schools in Chicago (Illinois). The following unique features are discussed: (1) local school councils governing each school; (2) principals' responsibilities; (3) central school board's role; (4) specific school and system goals. (FMW)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Role, Community Control, Decentralization
