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Peer reviewedGittell, Marilyn – Social Policy, 1976
Asserts that community control is not an all-or-nothing situation, but that centralization can co-exist with decentralization. Argues for states to have the responsibility for insuring desegregation and equitable funding and for communities to have control of personnel, curriculum and budget priorities. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Community Control, Court Litigation, Court Role, Decentralization
Long, David C.; And Others – 1977
Faced with a legal mandate to equalize educational resources available to its public elementary schools, can the Board of Education of the District of Columbia respond effectively to the public pressure for decentralization of its decision-making systems? The answer may be determined through the responses to two further questions: to what extent…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Tractenberg, Paul L.; Arnold, Selma – 1970
The contributors to this volume examine various legal aspects of the following school problems: decentralization, collective negotiation, and student rights. These writers detail the practical aspects of recent decentralizations in New York City and Detroit, and make recommendations for local board functioning in decentralized systems. Three…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Community Control
Polley, John W.; Lamitie, Robert E. – 1972
This chapter provides insights into the solution of financial and governance problems that face big city education. The report identifies recent developments affecting big city education such as metropolitanism, regionalism, full State financing, revenue sharing, and reform of property taxation. The authors discuss (1) recent court cases affecting…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Getches, David H. – 1977
Education for rural Alaska Natives has come along a lengthy and tortuous path. Today the much criticized tripartite system remains in which the Federal, state and local governments deliver educational services. A new state law, S.B. 35, which attempts to decentralize control, raises some serious legal problems because of its inconsistency with…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Community Control, Court Litigation
Download full textMayer, Martin – 1969
In late spring of 1967, the New York City Board of Education recognized an experimental school district, comprised of two junior high schools and six elementary schools, in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of New York City. The prime impetus for this experiment in community involvement in decentralized school administration stemmed from a coalition…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Board of Education Policy, Civil Rights, Collective Bargaining
