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Hickcox, Edward S.; Ryan, Doris W. – 1979
Enrollment decline places new pressures on school administrators and school boards, but Ontario's Commission on Declining Enrollments found no call for a complete reorganization of either the provincial governance system or the structure of the delivery system at the administrative level. This document describes those aspects of Ontario's school…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Declining Enrollment, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
Readling, John; Kiley, Lawrence A. – 1981
Periods of executive change provide an ideal time for the development of planning efforts for public school systems and for self-examination of the system's strengths, weaknesses, and long-range needs. In the anonymous school system under study, the new superintendent's application of general systems theory to school district management entailed a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
Ontario Human Rights Commission, Toronto. – 1982
The Race Relations Division of the Ontario (Canada) Human Rights Commission states its primary goal as that of helping the institutional sector of the society to deal with problems of racism and racial discrimination. In order to forward the belief that responsibility for promoting race relations lies with key government agencies and institutions…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Policy
Stine, David O.; Gordon, Sherry G. – 2002
This paper--part of a collection of 54 papers from the 48th annual conference of the Education Law Association held in November 2002--discusses open-meeting laws. All 50 states have adopted laws that require school officials to conduct their business in open sessions before the public and the press. This paper examines the Brown Act, California's…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Download full textBenton, Davis – 1992
This paper describes school consolidation in six small towns in South Nevada County, Arkansas. None of the six schools had the resources to meet the requirements of advanced programs set by the Arkansas Educational Standards Act. School boards met with each community to gather support for consolidation, discussing increased taxes to pay for a new…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board of Education Role, Consolidated Schools, Educational Finance
Syfrett, Evelyn E. – 1984
Florida state legislation has mandated the evaluation of its compensatory education programs. The Florida Accountability Act of 1976 called for minimum basic skills testing in grades 3, 5, 8, and 11 (subsequently amended to grade 10). In 1977, the Florida Compensatory Education Act mandated remedial programs for students performing below the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis
