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Download full textNational School Resource Network, Washington, DC. – 1980
The relationship between the Flint (Michigan) Board of Education and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation began in 1935 with a $6,000 grant. The relationship between the two organizations has made Flint the national laboratory for community education programs. Through the years, the Flint community schools have requested and received Mott…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Schools, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Education Finance Center. – 1979
This survey examined the attitudes of people in four states where tax or spending limitations appeared on the ballot in November 1978. It found that people had positive attitudes toward schools in their communities, believed schools are doing an above-average job, and viewed schools as a public service that should not be reduced. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Financial Support
Ray, James E.; Knapp, Robert – The Effective School Report, 1984
The Flint (Michigan) Community Schools developed a four-phase School Improvement process model. In Phase 1 (Commitment), school district and administrative support were obtained and pilot schools were selected (one elementary and one middle school). The principals of these schools and one teacher representative from each received training in…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Greene, Brenda Z. – Updating School Board Policies, 1984
As a result of the National Commission on Excellence in Education report and other recent studies, an increasing number of governors and state legislators have sought to establish new requirements and minimum standards statewide. Addressing the potential threat that these requirements represent to local school boards in their efforts to maintain…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Community Control
Haberkern, Rachel M. – Issue Notes, 2002
The 1998 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) was the first federal legislation to contain a "charitable choice" provision allowing faith-based organizations (FBOs) to compete for state and federal government funds on the same basis as secular providers. For FBOs that consider pursuit of government…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies, Church Programs
