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Download full textMississippi Department of Education, 2004
The Mississippi Board of Education adopted the School/Community Involvement initiative in 2003 as a part of the Mississippi School Level Accountability Model Evaluation Instruments. This guide provides the components of those standards along with ideas and suggestions to assist parents, community members and school staff with the development or…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Parent Participation, State Standards, Accountability
Zimmer, Amy; Mediratta, Kavitha Ed. – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2004
Spurred by the economic boom of the late 1990s and a decades-old national standards movement that increased both the transparency of assessment results and the awareness of urban public school failure, communities across the country are turning to community organizing as a strategy for improving public education. As organizations confront the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Accountability, Community Action
