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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
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Niemiec, 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
Sealey, D. Bruce; Riffel, J. Anthony – 1986
Prepared by independent evaluators at the request of the Interlake Tribal Division for Schools, this report assesses the status of education in Fairford and makes recommendations for comprehensive educational improvements that would enable the community to regain local control of education. The opening sections describe the present situation,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Change Strategies
Nicholson, Ronald; And Others – 1983
Between 1970 and 1976, with continued funding and personnel support from the Agency for International Development (AID), Paraguay instituted major rural educational reforms encompassing curriculum revision, teacher training and retraining, training of administrators and supervisors, new school construction, and provision of teaching materials and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Change, Change Strategies, Community Control