Return Schools to Local Control.

Eagleton, Cliff

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ERIC Number: EJ305926

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1984

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Return Schools to Local Control.

Eagleton, Cliff

USA Today, v113 n2472 p43-45 Sep 1984

The past 50 years have witnessed a vast transformation of public education from tens of thousands of relatively independent, "grass roots," citizen-controlled school districts to centrally controlled, massive bureaucracies. Ten recommendations are made which would bring public education back under the control of ordinary citizens. (RM)

Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change, Participative Decision Making, Public Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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