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Rubenstein, Stanley E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1976
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Conflict
Scott, Hugh J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1976
A former superintendent lists the contradictions, conflicts, and calamities that a large-city superintendent must contend with. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents, Urban Education
Johnson, Carroll F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Lists superintendent characteristics boards of education most often specified as desirable and suggests behavioral patterns that will help develop the four qualities most sought by boards. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents
Ricketts, Kenneth E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Describes how Lawndale District, near Los Angeles, developed a system of accountability starting with the superintendent. Describes the subgoals and objectives developed by the superintendent in cooperation with the Board of Trustees and members of the community. (JF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Board Administrator Relationship, Community Involvement
Cuban, Larry – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
In addition to serving as managers and teachers, superintendents must exercise considerable political skill to meet the varying demands placed on school administrations by school boards responding to changing public pressures. Managing the conflict growing out of these multiple roles is the sign of an excellent superintendent. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
McCloud, Barbara; McKenzie, Floretta Dukes – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
A 1992 Council of Urban Boards of Education report affirms that board members and superintendents are aware of their mutual problems. Both parties agreed that open communication, trust, and understanding of role differences are the factors most important to effective board/superintendent relationships. The major destabilizing factors were board…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Communication Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that a Texas school superintendent, having failed to submit a written contract to the school board for execution, had no basis for holding that a property interest in employment existed. Certainty about binding obligations requires written agreements signed by both parties. (PB)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Contracts, Court Litigation
Houston, Paul; Bryant, Anne – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Directors of the American Association of School Administrators and the National School Boards Association discuss superintendents' and school boards' complementary roles in ensuring that all community members become public school stakeholders. Boards and superintendents must respect each other, stop sending mixed signals, clarify roles and goals,…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement
Danzberger, Jacqueline P.; Usdan, Michael D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Local system for public school governance has changed little since early twentieth century, when conception of school boards as trusteeships and superintendents as chief managers changed school-operating boards into policy boards. Since the late 1960s, local boards have reverted to politicized boards, increasingly involved in district…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Change Strategies
