Decentralization Continued: A Survey of Emerging Issues in Site-Bound Decision Making.

Wyman, Benjamin F.

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ERIC Number: EJ607933

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Publication Date: 2000

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Decentralization Continued: A Survey of Emerging Issues in Site-Bound Decision Making.

Wyman, Benjamin F.

Journal of Law and Education, v29 n2 p255-263 Apr 2000

Site-based decision making (SBDM) represents one of the more progressive paradigmatic shifts in decentralization. Varieties of the model have been implemented. Surveys issues emerging from the variety of experiments in SBDM. Concludes that, at its best, SBDM is the grand experiment of letting local schools determine how to meet the district's educational goals and objectives. (Contains 44 footnotes.) (MLF)

Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Central Office Administrators, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Participative Decision Making, Principals, Public Schools, School Based Management, School District Autonomy, Training

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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