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Usdan, Michael D. – Theor Pract, 1969
Large cities may have to implement educational change on an all or nothing basis if any headway at all is to be made in eroding the power of entrenched establishments. (CK)
Descriptors: Community Control, Decentralization, Educational Experiments, Power Structure
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
Rodgers, Frederick A. – 1970
This document reports on an evaluative study of New York City's community education centers. Initiated in 1968, the Community Education Centers (CEC) Program is designed to coordinate and concentrate educational services for disadvantaged persons with low educational achievement and restricted social mobility. By involving citizens in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Annual Reports, Community Control, Community Cooperation
Spivak, Harriet – 1973
The relationship between research and educational policy in the areas of school system decentralization and community control is analyzed in this dissertation. The literature on decentraliztion and community control is reviewed. It is contended that existing empirical research on these subjects has not systematically tested the assumptions…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization, Doctoral Dissertations
Fager, John C. – 1993
This study finds that the New York City version of school-based decision making, School-Based Management/Shared Decision Making (SBM/SDM), fails to bring school-based management or shared decision making to the schools. This report begins by describing the seriously dysfunctional structure of the New York City public schools and explains the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Community Control, Decentralization
Yin, Robert K.; Yates, Douglas – 1974
The purpose of the study reported here was to assess the various decentralization efforts as they occurred in different services and in different cities. The study reviewed decentralization's record in terms of five outcomes: (1) Increases in the flow of information between servers and served; (2) Improvements in service officials attitudes; (3)…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Case Studies, Change Strategies, City Government
Peer reviewedNiemiec, Richard P., Ed.; Walberg, Herbert J., Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1993
The Chicago (Illinois) public school system has been undergoing a major restructuring that has shifted responsibility for running the schools to local school councils. The nine articles of this issue bring together opinions and research of a diverse group of authors with multiple perspectives on the effort. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Community Control, Community Involvement
