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Hess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
What to do about persistently low-performing schools is a pressing challenge for policymakers and educators across the nation. Schools that fail to make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) for five consecutive years under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) must be "restructured". The 3,500 schools in the United States currently in…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Hess, Frederick M. – American School Board Journal, 2003
Elected school boards' skeptical eyes can guard against bad management practices and ensure that different voices get heard. Problems with board governance are a product of too little democracy. A democratic reform strategy would make board elections partisan, hold them on the same day as elections for more prominent state or national offices,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Effectiveness, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education