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Ornstein, Allan C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Cites the rush to administrative decentralization and community participation. Suggests that controversy arises when school critics want to move to community control, a concept that has not yet accomplished what advocates claim for it. (JF)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization
Download full textAmerican Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1970
ERIC abstracts on citizen involvement in the control of schools, announced in RIE through Novermber 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "citizen participation,""decentralization,""parent participation,""parent school relationship,""school community relationship," and "school district autonomy." The following…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Peer reviewedBrown, Frank – Educational Forum, 1978
The article examines the Buffalo, New York, experiment of community control at the local school level and why it succeeded when other similar experiments failed. (MF)
Descriptors: Black Community, Citizen Participation, Community Control, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedOwston, Ronald D. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1983
Indian-controlled education programs may be evaluated by involving community members/leaders; administrators/teachers/students; federal-provincial education officers. The advantages include heightening community awareness of strengths/weaknesses in education programs, allowing community control over nature/duration of evaluation, providing ongoing…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Johnson, Bob L., Jr. – 1988
The local school board has traditionally been the predominant control mechanism for public education in this country. Since the 1970s however, increased legislation and reform in statehouses across the nation have functioned to reduce the discretion enjoyed by local boards. This paper represents an attempt to sketch this increase in state…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Centralization, Citizen Participation
Bruss, Lyle R. – 1975
To explore the issue of local control over public education, five major questions have been identified and followed by responses from a variety of sources that depict existing conflicts and diversity in opinion. The responses illustrate that resolutions of the local control problems are uncertain, not due to lack of direction by participants, but…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Community Control
Shannon, Thomas A. – 1980
In focusing on local school board response to citizen desires for change in public school operations and on significant issues changing education from the perspective of school boards, three principles must be kept in mind: (1) public schools are controlled by three arms of government at three levels; (2) the federal government has limited powers;…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation
