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Moore, Robert L. – Training and Development Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Community Involvement, Low Income Groups
Peer reviewedKrasner, Michael – Urban Education, 1980
In order to determine why community control groups and low income people have been excluded from power, this study describes and analyzes in detail the politics of education in a typical New York City public school district. (Author/JLF)
Descriptors: Community Control, Decentralization, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education
Fuentes, Luis – Puerto Rican Journal, 1982
Advocates community control of urban schools through the fair representation of minority and low income groups on local school boards. Holds that schools must reinforce and support the culture, values, and identities of minority children if they are to prepare these groups for success in the world. (GC)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Community Control, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Download full textWielk, Carol A. – 1969
Ocean Hill-Brownsville was one of the three projects established by the New York City Board of Education to experiment with the reality of community participation. In time, much of the early optimism of community planners was dampened. The Board of Education's procrastination and its unwillingness to develop guidelines prior to the initiation of…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Community Action, Community Attitudes
Novack, David R. – 1975
The impact of variables such as personal affiliation with a community program and degree of local autonomy on resident perspectives, specifically those pertaining to community feelings, issues of efficacy, and community control, are examined in order to provide the target populations attitudes and perceptions. This paper intends to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Control
Davies, Don; And Others – 1978
This report explores the individual and social benefits of citizen participation in educational decision-making. This exploration combines democratic theory, historical and cultural determinants, practical experience and public opinion, and research and evaluation. Citizens participate politically in school affairs to effect changes in policy,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Control, Decision Making
Cibulka, James G.; And Others – 1982
This book, based on a survey of parents, teachers, and principals affiliated with 54 private schools in eight cities, examines the mandate for and effects of private education for low income, predominantly minority, urban populations. The study was directed toward exploring first why low income, minority parents choose private schools for their…
Descriptors: Black Education, Catholic Schools, Community Control, Decentralization
