Download or read book Public Participation in Local School Districts written by Frank W. Lutz and published by Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patterns of Participation written by Mary Ellen Stanwick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Participation in Education written by Carl A. Grant and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Controlling Public Education written by Kathryn A. McDermott and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott argues to the contrary that existing local institutions are no longer sufficient for achieving either equity or democratic governance. Not only is local control inequitable, it also fails to live up to its reputation for guaranteeing public participation and citizen influence. Drawing upon democratic theory and the results of field research in New Haven, Connecticut, and three suburbs, McDermott contends that our educational system can be made more democratic by centralizing control over funding while decentralizing most authority over schools to the level of schools themselves while enacting public school choice controlled for racial balance. To many people in Connecticut and elsewhere, the tension between equal opportunity for all students and local control of public education seems impossible to resolve. In 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Sheff v. O'Neill that local control produces unconstitutional segregation of public schools. Nearly all of the state's 169 towns operate their own public schools, and, like the towns they serve, the schools are generally homogeneous with respect to race and socioeconomic class. In the Sheff ruling, the court declared that making school districts coterminous with town lines "is the single most important factor contributing to the present concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in the Hartford public school system." At the same time, the court also acknowledged that the town-based school system "presently furthers the legitimate nonracial interests of permitting considerable local control and accountability in educational matters." In Connecticut and elsewhere, it has often seemed necessary to choose between local control and equity in public education, and local control has almost always won. McDermott argues that rather than seeing local control and equity as conflicting goals, policymakers should regard them as equally important components of democracy in public education. In her view, a truly democratic system of education should both encourage citizen participation in school governance and contribute to the formation and maintenance of a social order in which equality of opportunity prevails over hierarchies of privilege. Centralizing distribution of resources and using controlled choice to end racial isolation would provide greater equality of opportunity, while decentralizing management of schools would expand citizen participation. McDermott's conclusions break new ground in our understanding of local school governance itself and call into question the conventional wisdom about local participation. These findings should interest those who study school governance and reform—especially in an urban setting—as well as policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and citizens eager to improve their schools.
Download or read book School Quality and Local School Government written by Educational Conference Board of New York State and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen Participation in Local Policy Making for Public Education written by Herbert McNee Hamlin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy written by Tina Nabatchi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation developed over time to include myriad thick, thin, and conventional opportunities, occurring in both face-to-face meetings and online settings. The book explores the use of participation in various arenas, including education, health, land use, and state and federal government. It offers a practical framework for thinking about how to engage citizens effectively, and clear explanations of participation scenarios, tactics, and designs. Finally, the book provides a sensible approach for reshaping our participation infrastructure to meet the needs of public officials and citizens. The book is filled with illustrative examples of innovative participatory activities, and numerous sources for more information. This important text puts the spotlight on the need for long-term, cross-sector, participation planning, and provides guidance for leaders, citizens, activists, and others who are determined to improve the ways that participation and democracy function. Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy: Helps students and practitioners understand the history, theory, and practice of public participation Contains a wealth of case studies that explore the application of public participation in different settings Covers vital issues such as education, health, land use, and state and federal government Has accompanying instructor resources, such as PowerPoint slides, discussion questions, sample assignments, case studies and research from www.participedia.net, and classroom activities.
Download or read book Citizen Participation Handbook written by Greg Druian and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Besieged written by William G. Howell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Model for Community Participation in Local School District Decision Making written by Dennis P. Pallozzi and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plan for Advancing Quality and Excellence by the Organization and Management of Public Education written by Massachusetts. Governor's Commission on School District Organization and Collaboration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... "This Commission was charged by the Governor with reviewing the way elementary and secondary education is organized in the Commonwealth."; "Key points of the charge to the Commission cite the needs to: a. Prepare and recommend a comprehensive plan for school district organization, collaboration, cooperation and state assistance. ... b. Review the present status of school district organization and delivery of educational services in the Commonwealth with particular attention to the authority of the Board of Education to achieve improvement in school district organization ... c. Assure that the process of developing the plan includes extensive participation of citizens from communities of all sizes and locations in the Commonwealth in such a manner as to present to them a variety of alternatives to achieve satisfactory and economical educational programs and to elicit from them their preferences and ideas for possible new approaches to school districting. d. Recommend the necessary processes and resources for assuring the implementation of the provisions of the plan ... e. Give careful consideration to ways and means of bringing urban and suburban children and youth together for common education experiences."; sections include: What is a School District? // The Present Organizational Dilemma of School Districts // School District Consolidation // The Structure, Enrollment and Finance of Public Elementary and Secondary Education // Measures of School District Inequality // Fiscal Crisis in Local School Districts // How Many School Districts are "Too Small?" // Urban and Metropolitan Organizations // Occupational Education // Proliferation of Inadequate Programs // Vocational Offerings, Alternatives and the Student (Limited Choices for Girls, Admission to Regional Vocational-Technical School) // Management Problems in Small School Districts // Citizen Involvement and the Management of School Districts // The Changing Department of Education // Other Reports Related to the Commission's Work // The Commission's
Download or read book Citizen Participation in Educational Decision making in an Urban School District as Perceived by Parents and Administrators written by Barbara Ingram Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen Participation in the Public Schools written by Robert H. Salisbury and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Public Education in the Nation s Big City School Districts written by Council of Big City Boards of Education and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Rule written by Miriam E. David and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greater Citizen Participation in Government written by Frank C Moore and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Public Policy and Citizen Participation written by Charles R. Foster and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Public Policy and Citizen Participation: Energy, Education, Health, and Urban Issues in the U.S. and Germany focuses on the processes involved in policy formulation and the functions of citizens in such activity. Concerns include education, energy and environmental policies, decision making, and delivery of human services. The selection first analyzes the policy-making procedures in the United States, including participation of the poor in poverty programs, welfare reform, energy legislation, and federal aid to elementary and secondary education. The book then discusses the participation of citizens in decision-making processes in energy and environmental policy. The necessity of citizens' participation, failure of political parties, local decision making, and approval procedures for the federal emissions protection act are elaborated. The publication underscores citizens' participation at government expense, including federal experience with intervenor funding, congressional activities, and signs of change in the public sector. The text also takes a look at education as loosely coupled systems in West Germany and the United States; experiences with participation in the continuing education of teachers in West Germany, and participation of citizens in the delivery of human services. The book is a dependable reference for readers interested in the processes involved in policy formulation and the role of citizens in such undertaking.
