The centralized, executive budget is widely viewed as the predominant form of local
government budgeting in the United States. But what is the practice in smaller, rural …

Decentralized in 1976, rural Alaska's schools today experience varying levels of lay control.
What factors condition lay participation in and influence on school governance? This study …

This book is an attempt to bring a particular intellectual perspective to bear on the practical
problems of administrating education--a perspective that eschews the purely technical …

This paper reports on the design of an attitude scale to be used in studies investigating
relationships between principals and members of school councils in Victoria. The scale …

This study examined a random sample of teacher collective bargaining agreements from
school districts with a pupil enrollment of 1000 to 5000 in states which either require or …

This study examines how and why the Seattle superintendents and members of the Seattle
School Board responded to declining enrollment in a period of severe retrenchment by …

This evaluation monograph concerns the influences of the community on learning. Some
influences within the community such as the family are no doubt culturally universal. Other …

In the highly centralised, state system of public schooling in Australia there has traditionally
been little opportunity for members of the community to participate in educational decision …

The purpose of this study was to examine the representativeness of school boards in North
Dakota in terms of the expressed desires, opinions, and wants of the community …

This study was designed to investigate and to describe the status, structure and functions of
school sponsored citizen advisory groups in selected Iowa school districts. Nadler's (1980) …