Compares voter turnout in California school board elections when elections were scheduled in even-numbered years rather than odd-numbered years. Findings from selected school districts since 1985 show significant differences in voter turnout depending on the year: 43.85% voter turnout occurred in even-numbered years compared to 20.79% in odd. (GLR)

Presents data from four California districts supporting the Iannaconne/Lutz theory that democratic control of school district policy occurs through episodic voter dissatisfaction leading to incumbent defeat and changes in school administration. Further asserts that the typical length of a change episode extends for as many as four successive…

Focuses on the rebuilding of a successfully integrated school system after the period when separatist Black power politics had driven out moderate families of both races. Emphasizes that the Sausalito experience is useful in understanding the dilemmas of Black militancy and White liberalism in American society. (Author/BE)

Discusses historical and legal analyses, as well as work in organizational theory and decision-process research, about church-state controversies within school districts. Discusses the political systems model and the decision-process model as pathways to problem analysis. Considers the institutional response of five California school districts.…