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Godfrey, Margaret; Swanchak, John – 1985
The increasingly politicized environment of schools should be examined in the context of the board of education's legal powers and the politics of education. Historically, the superintendent of schools has dominated policy making, though school boards' influence has been noted in areas such as finance and physical facilities, and in smaller…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Analysis of Variance, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
Peer reviewedGronn, Peter C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
Uses transcripts and subsequent reflections of school board members on a meeting of a primary school council in order to indicate administrator influence and leader-follower dynamics. (JW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Case Studies, Elementary Education
Littleton, D. Mark; Turner, A. Lynn – 1984
A questionnaire completed by 251 school board members from across Texas revealed wide disagreement over the role of the school superintendent. Respondents identified the sizes of their districts, their educational attainment levels, and their lengths of tenure, then indicated whether responsibility for each of 29 tasks in 4 broad areas should rest…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education
Download full textBacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – 1983
This paper reports a survey of the attitudes of school personnel toward teacher unions and draws some implications concerning the dynamics of labor relations in school systems. Teachers, principals, superintendents, and school board members responded to questions on what areas unions should be involved in, degree of satisfaction with the local,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining
Miller, Rima; And Others – 1987
To explore themes previously identified among successful schools from the perspective of the school district, this report organizes its discussion of the nine themes developed by T.B. Corcoran and B.L. Wilson (1986) around the role of the central office administration and the ways in which it might cooperate with schools in supporting secondary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role
Carpenter, DeeDee Currier – 1987
This study of the school board agenda-setting role among 30 Minnesota superintendents interprets their perceptions in relation to environmental contexts, group demands, issues control, and district enrollment size. A microperspective of David Easton's political systems model provided the guiding conceptual framework. Respondents were interviewed…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Agenda Setting, Board of Education Policy
Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
Drawing on survey data from 83 New York school districts and case studies of 6 districts, the project reported here explores several aspects of schools and districts as organizations. The conceptual framework guiding the study emphasizes that educational organizations are not governed either by their structure or by the reactions of individuals,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Behavior, Boards of Education
