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Integrated Governance as a Reform Strategy in the Chicago Public Schools. Publication Series No. 10.
Download full textWong, Kenneth K.; Dreeben, Robert; Lynn, Laurence E., Jr.; Sunderman, Gail L. – 1997
Decentralization is no longer the dominant reform strategy in the Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools. The Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act of 1995 redesigns the school governance arrangement so that power and authority are now integrated among city officials, school boards, local school councils, and a Chief Executive Officer. To examine how…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, City Officials, Decentralization
Peer reviewedBacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
Data from a sample comprising 46 superintendents and 95 principals in 83 New York State school districts indicate that, for each role, different factors hindering task completion (including bureaucracy, supervision, decision-making power, work demands, and district and individual characteristics) will predict administrator dissatisfaction with…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Bureaucracy, Community Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education
Talbert, Joan E. – 1984
Based on an institutional-contingency view, this study focuses on ways in which public and private school sectors in six San Francisco area counties embody different organizational logistics and authority principles, including rational-legal, traditional, and local-market. Results suggest that, among other characteristics, nonreligious private…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Redfield, Kent; Gore, William – 1975
Concurrent with a needs assessment and community input study, a research team undertook two behavioral science research efforts. The first was an identification and examination of the influence network through which local leadership was organized. The second was an examination of how those who constituted the network of policy-making influentials…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Development, Community Influence, Decision Making
Leon, Anibal; And Others – 1982
Elementary and secondary teachers in Brazil, Jordan, Venezuela, and the United States feel they have a fair amount of autonomy in running their own classrooms, somewhat less autonomy regarding certain miscellaneous job-related matters, and still less autonomy in matters affecting the operation of the school as an organization. The attitudes of a…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Analysis of Variance, Cluster Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Booth, Ronald R.; And Others – 1985
In October 1984 the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed four-part questionnaires concerning collective bargaining and salaries to superintendents in 940 of the 1,006 school districts in Illinois. This report arranges the data from the 582 responses into tables providing information concerning four broad subjects: the current status of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
The Subcommittee focused its 1-2 February 1977 hearings on the educational activity of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), as the beginning of an effort to obtain an accurate picture of the current state of educational programs dealing with Indians and the development of ways to improve both the programs and their delivery. On 1 February a panel…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Community Schools
