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Download full textJordan P. Fullam – Critical Education, 2025
Newark, New Jersey has been at the forefront of school reform from the civil rights era through more recent efforts to resist neoliberal school reform approaches during the 2010s. Drawing on interviews with activists, policymakers, and school reformers, this paper documents the history of community organizing as a strategy to improve conditions in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Action, Educational History, Municipalities
Rebekah Skelton – Texas Education Review, 2025
When the state of Texas took control of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in the summer of 2023, it marked the end of a multi-year legal battle between the district and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the beginning of a community-led campaign to re-take control of the district. Since, students and community groups have rallied to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, School District Autonomy
Association of Community Tribal Schools, Sisseton, SD. – 1996
This document reviews the history of American Indian control of federally funded Indian schools and resulting improvements in American Indian education. The establishment of Rough Rock Demonstration School (Arizona) in 1966 marked the first time in 120 years that an Indian community was allowed to have control over its children's education. The…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Leonard, Deni – 1980
A program to bring about community involvement in the development of curriculum for public schools was implemented in Seattle in 1974-75 by the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation. The program follows a 12-step procedure that begins with selecting community representatives who will learn curriculum planning skills enabling them to make…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Change Strategies
PDF pending restorationRandell, Shirley K. – 1978
Australian school communities participating in the Disadvantaged Schools Program plan their own approaches to improving schooling for students, assisted and supported by consultants; the Disadvantaged Country Areas Program, funded in 1977, differs from the Disadvantaged Schools Program in that whole areas rather than individual schools have been…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Community Control, Cooperative Programs, Decision Making
Moyle, Colin – 1989
A historical overview and analysis of the decentralization process in Victoria, Australia, is the purpose of this paper. The case study illustrates the impact of conflict between political and administrative agendas on attempts to implement the government-initiated policy decision. The current two-tiered system is composed of central and local…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Case Studies, Community Control, Community Involvement
Randell, Shirley K. – 1979
The Disadvantaged Country Areas Program in Australia involves a limited number of areas in each State selected according to their relative poverty, special need for improved educational provisions, and lack of opportunities for employment and training for young people. All schools in the declared areas are expected to share the services and…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Catholic Schools, Community Control, Cooperative Programs
