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Ornstein, Allan C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1975
This article provides data on the decentralization of seven large U. S. school systems, explaining when and how it came about. (Editor)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Control, Decentralization, Educational Facilities Design
Brunn, Stanley D.; And Others – Urban Educ, 1970
Examines official Headstart and Office of Economic Opportunity policy on parent involvement, as well as opinion poll results from teachers and school district superintendents. (JM)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Community Control, Parent Participation
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Castile, George P. – Human Organization, 1974
The paper examines directions for social change on Indian reservations as a result of recent shifts in Federal policy. A contrast is made between the existing pattern of administered communities and the possibility of a new model, the "sustained enclave" (a program of economically supported but nondirected change). (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Change Strategies
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LaNoue, George R.; Smith, Bruce L. R. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1971
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, Community Control, Decentralization
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Charles, Searle F., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1978
The successes and failures in balancing state and local control of public community colleges are explored in this collection of essays describing effective and non-effective coordinating and planning efforts. Vincent S. Darnowski explores the Connecticut community colleges' struggle with a centralized state bureaucracy. Sidney W. Brossman uses the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Colleges, Community Control, Decision Making
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1973
Urban and rural development requires an innovative problem-solving mechanism that would better use the leverage inherent in available resources. There is a model of such an institution now evolving in depressed areas which warrants a substantial investment of Ford Foundation funds: the Community Development Corporation (CDC)--an organization whose…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Control, Community Development, Employment Programs
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Granheim, Marit K.; Lundgren, Ulf P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1991
Describes the public education system in Norway. Discusses steering and decentralization, political and professional responsibility, and proposals for governing by goals. Identifies the EMIL plan, which calls for establishing goals and evaluating results from the view of the government and teachers. Lists political and professional…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Community Control, Decentralization
Mogulof, Melvin B. – 1969
The extent of citizen participation is influenced by local community factors, the character of Federal agency policy, and the purposes of Federal legislators and administrators. The latter include: decrease of alienation, engagement of the "sick" individual in the healing process, creation of a neighborhood power force able to influence the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Agency Role, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Philadelphia Commission on Decentralization and Community Participation, PA. – 1970
The Philadelphia Commission on Decentralization and Community Participation offers plans for reforms on the school and district level. On the school level, three options are suggested: (1) informal community participation in decision-making; (2) advisory participation in the form of an elected or appointed committee from the community; or, (3)…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees, Boards of Education, Community Action
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Wilson, Michael – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Summarizes data extracted from a national survey of Canadian provinces concerning educational policy towards arts education. Discovers greater centralized control in the more populous provinces with the remote areas ceding authority to local boards. Different provinces appear to conceive of the arts in significantly different ways. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Art Education, Community Control, Data Collection