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Jakes, Harold E. – Ontario Education, 1982
Although systematic national surveys of the recruitment and personal profiles of school board members are regularly conducted in the United States, few demographic or ethnographic studies have been conducted in Canada, in general, or in Ontario, in particular. This paper reviews (1) the brief history of school board recruitment and constituency in…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
Jakes, Harold E. – Ontario Education, 1983
The 1982 school board elections in the geographical and political Ottawa-Carleton (Ontario) regions gave rise to a record number of new candidates for election to the two public and two separate school boards that comprise the region. This paper examines some of the reasons for the dramatic increase and develops a profile of their characteristics.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Background, Board Candidates, Boards of Education
