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Download full textLos Angeles City Schools, CA. Office of Education and Management Assessment. – 1972
A major component of the decentralization concept has been the focus on the participation of community, staff, and students in the process of educational decision making. On June 28, 1971, the Los Angeles City Board of Education mandated that a school-community advisory council be established in every regular elementary and secondary school in the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Involvement
Fried, Robby – 1981
The monograph describes the Community Learning Center (CLC) model and process, which resulted from a University System of New Hampshire project conducted in six small New Hampshire towns between July 1973 and June 1974. The development involved a non-school, learner-controlled base, headed by groups of citizens called "core groups," who…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Action
Davies, Don; And Others – 1979
This second volume of a status report on citizen participation in educational decision-making considers in more detail a variety of channels for participation. In chapter 1, three examples of community councils illumine the importance of race, class, and economic factors in patterns of participation. Chapter 2 focuses on mandated school councils…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Citizen Participation
Institute for Responsive Education, Boston, MA. – 1979
Each of these four papers highlights findings of a National Institute of Education-sponsored project entitled "Citizen Organizations: A Study of Citizen Participation in Educational Decisionmaking." The first paper, "Class, Power, and Networking: Implications of Existing Network Patterns Among Groups," discusses the effect of inter-organizational…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Policy, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Webster, Sheila J.; Novak, John M. – 1986
Inviting policy development is an attempt to cordially summon those who are involved and affected by rules, codes, and procedures to understand and participate in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies. This paper first presents criteria for an invitational framework for policy development and then goes on to discuss the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Davies, Don; Zerchykov, Ross – 1978
Over 800 items on citizen participation in educational decision-making, policy development, and school governance in public schools and school systems are described in this annotated bibliography. Major emphasis is on published books, pamphlets, monographs, and articles, although documents obtainable through the Educational Resources Information…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Advocacy
Shannon, Thomas A. – 1980
In focusing on local school board response to citizen desires for change in public school operations and on significant issues changing education from the perspective of school boards, three principles must be kept in mind: (1) public schools are controlled by three arms of government at three levels; (2) the federal government has limited powers;…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation
