The purpose of this study was to investigate on the challenges facing heads of public secondary schools in implementing their school development plans in Morogoro Municipality. The study was cross-sectional and employed survey method. Two instruments were developed and used to collect data for the study. They were questionnaire and interviews. The…

This dissertation describes a study that sought to determine the relative bargaining effectiveness of the three options open to school boards in selecting a chief negotiator to handle collective bargaining with teacher unions: 1) hiring a professional negotiator from outside the community, 2) appointing a staff administrator, or 3) appointing a…

This document reports on a study conducted in Wisconsin to determine the relative incidence of evaluations of high school principals by boards of education, the degree of formality of these evaluations, and the sources of information and/or criteria used. Results determined that evaluation of high school principals by school boards occurs on a…

This paper describes the process of using a chief school administrator as a board resource person in contract negotiations involving the wages, hours, and working conditions of teachers. It describes how an administrator in a Pennsylvania school district supported and advised the board negotiating team by compiling, analyzing, and evaluating…

Program development in the Massachusetts community college is heavily influenced by the processes established to control and monitor program approval. Such procedures, usually supported by forms and time-tables of various sorts, can work to the detriment of responsible local program development, especially systematic need assessment and meaningful…

The study reported in this document reviewed and analyzed data from individual state departments of education concerning reading requirements for elementary teachers, English teachers who teach reading on the secondary level, and reading specialists. A four-question letter used to gather data was answered by 47 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin…

The study examined the competition for control of schools between Anglos and Mexican Americans in 2 South Texas towns. The study's major objective was to describe the history of, and conceptually account for, the development of this new ethnic power struggle in which the control of schools played a primary role. Both towns, situated in a region…

A questionnaire was mailed to 100 high school principals in Michigan in order to determine their strategic planning of administrative policies governing extracurricular speech activities. The survey questions were limited to 10 major items covering six key liability issues: (1) compatibility of school policies with state association rules and…

The disproportionate enrollment numbers of males and females in various classes in the Hayward, California Unified School District were investigated. A needs assessment was conducted to identify the subject, teacher, total enrollment, and sexual composition of the classes. Results indicated that 39 classes were disproportionate in their sexual…

Three basic questions form the focus for this inquiry into the educational decision making process. First, can community groups which are or have been involved in educational issues be identified within local school districts and can they be classified for further inquiry? Secondly, do these groups have influence in educational decisions which are…

The purpose of this study was to investigate in what ways and to what extent Parent Advisory Committees on Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act (PACT) and school authorities influenced each other in regard to decisions concerning Title I programs. By means of a descriptive analytic case study approach, the interactions of the PACTs and…

This dissertation is an exploratory study of a power struggle for control of public education in a large urban school system. This power struggle is examined via its exemplification in the form of a controversy over accountability within the school system. The method used for this study was the interviewing of 20 persons playing major roles in the…

In order to determine the extents to which a small rural community agreed with and had implemented the recommendations of the 1966 Anglo-American Conference on the Teaching of English (Dartmouth Seminar), five questions were formulated: (1) What is the community view of the recommendations? (2) Do differences in perception of curriculum exist…

This study examines the circumstances under which a large urban school system opens the budget development process to the input of citizens groups and the difficulties involved in this effort. The scope of the study is limited to the analysis of the 1977 Budget Task Force (BTF) of the Philadelphia School District and observations of the…

The study was undertaken to investigate the "1202 Commission" established in 1972 by public law, with respect to the implications for Florida Technological University. Information was gathered through interviews and correspondence with members of the Florida Department of Education, Governor's Office, Board of Regents of the State…