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French, Dan; Hawley Miles, Karen; Nathan, Linda – Boston Foundation, 2014
Boston Public Schools is at a crossroads. Nearly one-third of the system's schools operate under one of several "autonomy" structures, where school leaders have increased flexibility regarding staffing and other resources, and choice data indicate parents are far more likely to prefer these schools over so-called "traditional"…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School Based Management
Vernez, Georges; Karam, Rita; Marshall, Jeffery H. – RAND Corporation, 2012
This study provides a quantitative and qualitative status report on the implementation of school-based management (SBM) in Indonesia, identifies factors associated with the successful practices of SBM, and assesses SBM effects on student achievement eight years after its inception. The authors' findings are based on face-to-face surveys of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, School Based Management, Leadership Effectiveness
Siegel, Dorothy; Fruchter, Norm – 2002
This report reviews implementation of Phase 1 of the New York City Board of Education's Performance Driven Budgeting (PDB) initiative from 1997-00. This initiative generated a new element in school-based planning for instructional improvement, explicitly linking school-level budgeting and efforts to improve student and school performance. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Budgeting, Educational Finance
Gans, Thomas – 1997
This report contains collective data on Hawaii's schools, showing trends over time and, where appropriate, comparisons with data from other states. It includes data from 246 public schools and 7 school districts for the 1996-97 school year. In 1996-97, enrollment growth, which had exceeded 1.5% for 5 years, declined sharply to 1%. Dropout rates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
From the mission, several principles were developed to guide the School-Based Management and Accountability Program (the ABCs). (1) The ABCs sets standards for student performance and growth in the basics that are the foundation for further learning and achievement; (2) The accountability system in the ABCs plan is designed to result in improved…
Descriptors: School Based Management, School Districts, Accountability, Governance
Jimenez, Emmanuel; Sawada, Yasuyuki – 1998
This paper measures the effects on student outcomes of decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools. In El Salvador, community-managed schools emerged during the 1980s when public schools could not be extended to rural areas because of the country's civil war. In 1991, El Salvador's Ministry of Education decided to draw on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Community Control, Decentralization