Author: John F. Gallagher
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Politics of School District Reorganization
Author: John F. Gallagher
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Impact of Reorganization on School District Governance and Political Participation in a Centralized, Rural, New York State School District
Author: Kate Steuart Woodward
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Category : Citizens' advisory committees in education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Citizens' advisory committees in education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Organizing Districts for Better Schools
Author: Charles Ocelus Fitzwater
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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Your School District
Author: National Commission on School District Reorganization
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Category : Rural schools
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Rural schools
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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School District Reorganization
Author: Charles Ocelus Fitzwater
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Besieged
Author: William G. Howell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815797699
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815797699
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.
Race, Economics, and the Politics of Educational Change
Author: John Amis
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781621903628
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The 2010 national midterm elections produced Republican majorities in Tennessee for the first time since Reconstruction. In the wake of that election, leaders of the Shelby County Schools (SCS) school district began legislative maneuvering to advance a long-cherished goal: granting their schools "special school district" status-a move that would permanently sever the relationship between the SCS and the other school district in the county, Memphis City Schools (MCS). Leaders of MCS realized this action would deprive it of funding from a significant part of the county's tax base. So they made a stunning move of their own: they renounced the MCS charter. Ironically, under Tennessee law this action required SCS to take over the running of Memphis's schools; SCS would actually be forced to merge with MCS. Thus began the largest school district consolidation in the history of the United States. Race, Economics, and the Politics of Educational Change progresses through nine chapters that examine the MCS/SCS merger from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Historical, sociological, political, legal, institutional, urban planning, media studies, and educational analyses of the consolidation render John M. Amis and Paul M. Wright's volume a valuable tool for researchers, students, policy makers, and educators alike. The investigations in this work reveal deeply entrenched inequalities that have thwarted education, particularly for poor minority students, throughout the region's history. A model for other urban areas that face similar challenges, this volume will serve as a significant resource for those seeking to understand the trajectory of large-scale educational transformations. Book jacket.
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781621903628
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The 2010 national midterm elections produced Republican majorities in Tennessee for the first time since Reconstruction. In the wake of that election, leaders of the Shelby County Schools (SCS) school district began legislative maneuvering to advance a long-cherished goal: granting their schools "special school district" status-a move that would permanently sever the relationship between the SCS and the other school district in the county, Memphis City Schools (MCS). Leaders of MCS realized this action would deprive it of funding from a significant part of the county's tax base. So they made a stunning move of their own: they renounced the MCS charter. Ironically, under Tennessee law this action required SCS to take over the running of Memphis's schools; SCS would actually be forced to merge with MCS. Thus began the largest school district consolidation in the history of the United States. Race, Economics, and the Politics of Educational Change progresses through nine chapters that examine the MCS/SCS merger from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Historical, sociological, political, legal, institutional, urban planning, media studies, and educational analyses of the consolidation render John M. Amis and Paul M. Wright's volume a valuable tool for researchers, students, policy makers, and educators alike. The investigations in this work reveal deeply entrenched inequalities that have thwarted education, particularly for poor minority students, throughout the region's history. A model for other urban areas that face similar challenges, this volume will serve as a significant resource for those seeking to understand the trajectory of large-scale educational transformations. Book jacket.
Organizing Districts for Better Schools
Author: C. O. Fitzwater
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Reorganization of the Public School System
Author: Frank Forest Bunker
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Selected Characteristics of Reorganized School Districts
Author: Charles Ocelus Fitzwater
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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Publisher:
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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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