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Christine L. Sinatra – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods study was to identify the political styles of superintendents and school board members as perceived by superintendents. In addition, it was the purpose to identify and explain the political strategies superintendents use to work with the different political styles of school board…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Districts, Boards of Education, Administrator Attitudes
Susan Andreas-Bervel – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods study was to identify the political styles of exemplary suburban elementary school district superintendents and school board members in Southern California as perceived by superintendents. In addition, it was the purpose of this study to identify and explain the political strategies…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Boards of Education, Politics of Education, Suburban Schools
Eden, Max – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
In order to have a public education system that caters to the cultural, policy, and pedagogical preferences of communities, more citizens need to participate in local school board elections. This report discusses why school board elections should be moved on cycle (i.e., held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even…
Descriptors: Elections, Boards of Education, Political Attitudes, Voting
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Welsh, Sally – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2022
This article analyses the narratives and counter-narratives which characterised the struggle between the Chicago Public School Board (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) preceding the 2019 Chicago teachers' strike. This was an extraordinary event which has received little scholarly attention. The paper explores the types and uses of the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Unions, Politics of Education, Strikes
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Prier, Darius D. – Urban Education, 2019
An African American community and an all-White school board struggled along racial lines over re-naming an elementary school. In opposition to the name change, the school district enforced its school naming policy via a race-neutral approach in practice. The study chronicles an African American community's successful political actions in…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Elementary Schools, African American Community, Boards of Education
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Brauckmann, Stefan; Geißler, Gert; Weishaupt, Horst – Journal of School Public Relations, 2013
This article starts with a historical perspective on parental involvement in German schools' decision making in the context of historical developments and societal conditions as well as those specific to federal states. Subsequently, a presentation of contemporary school legislation highlights parental rights and duties with respect to parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Educational History
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Good, Thomas L.; McCaslin, Mary M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2005
Elementary school principals who received a Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) award in January or August 2002 (n = 21) were invited to be interviewed in the late spring and summer of 2003. A total of 19 principals consented to audiotaped interviews. The interviews focused on several CSR dimensions, including principals' beliefs about the extent to…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Guidance, Achievement Gains, School Restructuring
Van Sickle, J. H.; Whyte, John; Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
This bulletin discusses public education in the cities of the United States. Part I, Larger Cities, includes the following sections: (1) Introductory; (2) Americanization; (3) Elimination of German and the teaching of foreign languages; (4) Junior high schools; (5) Vocational education; (6) The Gary School; (7) Military training in the schools;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, School Administration, Vocational Education