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Download full textPakenham, Caroline; Olson, Bethany – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2021
By the time a child graduates from high school, they will have spent an estimated 15,600 hours at school. Because a significant amount of children's daily water intake comes from school water fountains, ensuring their access to safe drinking water at school is essential for their overall health. And one key health challenge that schools across the…
Descriptors: Water Pollution, Testing, Intervention, State Boards of Education
Colletti, Gary – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2017
States, districts, and schools across the country are forming "networked improvement communities" to address problems of practice, make changes based on data, and make connections across schools. These networks build capacity to improve schools, ensure effective change processes are in place, and make it possible to bring innovations to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Networks, State Boards of Education, Board of Education Role
Clear, Delbert K.; Forgy, Ervin L. – 1986
The literature on collective bargaining in public education typically argues whether such bargaining is good public policy or bad, sound or unsound, and so forth. No studies to date have measured the actual impact of differing kinds of collective bargaining legislation on local school boards' decisionmaking powers. This study examined whether two…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Community Coll. Services Unit. – 1999
The Community College Act of 1966 was enacted to redraft and unite the laws relating to community colleges in the state of Michigan. This document includes the original document plus amendments passed as of March 1999. The first part deals with the creation and government of districts. This includes districts comprised of elementary and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Community Colleges, Educational Policy
Wertz, Dan C. – American School Board Journal, 2003
Describes lengthy process and repercussions related to the difficult decision by school board of the Okemos Public Schools in Ingham County, Michigan, to close an elementary school. (PKP)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Problems, Elementary Schools, School Closing
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
CLEAGE, ALBERT B., JR. – 1967
IN THIS ARTICLE THE CHAIRMAN OF AN INNER-CITY ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS CRITICIZES THE DETROIT BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR FAILING TO EDUCATE INNER-CITY STUDENTS. HE MAINTAINS THAT COMPARISONS OF COUNTYWIDE SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT DATA AND THE RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS FOR MILITARY SERVICE SHOW THAT INNER-CITY SCHOOLS DO NOT ADEQUATELY PREPARE STUDENTS FOR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Qualifications, Black Culture, Black History
McBeath, Angus – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2007
This publication is a transcript of Superintendent Angus McBeath's presentation to legislators and media at an Issues and Ideas Forum hosted by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Lansing, Michigan. McBeath discusses education reform in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, including: (1) Basic Elements of Reform; (2) School Employee Union Involvement;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Unions, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedHerman, Jerry J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1978
This article briefly critiques management by objectives (MBO) as a means of specifying administrator tasks and then describes the implementation of MBO in the West Bloomfield School District, Orchard Lake, Michigan. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Administrators, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Management by Objectives
Lindelow, John – 1981
Chapter 4 of a volume on school leadership, this chapter is a revised version of the issue of "School Management Digest" entitled "School Based Management." It draws from the work of many authorities to define, explain, and make a case for school-based management, a system of educational administration in which the school is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Centralization, Community Involvement
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. Project Outreach. – 1985
This document, one of a series of public opinion surveys conducted for Project Outreach of the Michigan Board of Education, reports the results of a telephone survey of adult citizens in Michigan on their opinions about the public schools in the state. The survey was conducted in April, 1985 and a total of 801 interviews was completed. Survey…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Educational Attitudes, Educational Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education
Keith, Damon J. – Integrated Educ, 1970
Excerpts from the ruling made on February 17, 1970 by United States District Judge Damon J. Keith in the Pontiac, Michigan school segregation case. (JM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Court Litigation, De Jure Segregation, Desegregation Litigation
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. Office for the Education of Homeless Children and Homeless Youth. – 1991
This manual is designed to be used to acquaint Michigan State school and community members with provisions and requirements of the Steward B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1990. This act authorizes local and intermediate school districts to use competitive funding and to implement innovative laws, policies, and procedures that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Agency Role, Board of Education Role
HOFFMAN, JAMES – 1966
A COMMITTEE WAS APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF GRAND RAPIDS TO INVESTIGATE RACIAL BALANCE AND EDUCATIONAL QUALITY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. COMMITTEE FINDINGS SHOWED THAT RACIAL IMBALANCE EXISTED AND HAD INCREASED SINCE 1950. NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND IN TEACHER QUALITY IN THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, BUT NONWHITE TEACHERS WERE ASSIGNED…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Compensatory Education, De Facto Segregation, Educational Quality
