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Peer reviewedEger, Martin – Public Interest, 1981
Discusses community reaction and conflict that arose in response to a "values clarification" program initiated in the public schools of Spencer and Van Etten, New York. (GC)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction
Peer reviewedBacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1981
Concurrent case studies of consensus formation and maintenance in school district governance in six New York districts yielded eight critical variables, including environmental constraints, community interest group mobilization, school board and administrator unity, administrative expertise, superintendents' leadership abilities, teacher…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Board Administrator Relationship, Case Studies, Citizen Participation
Download full textLachat, Mary Ann – 1973
During the 1972-73 academic year, a research team working out of Teachers College, Columbia University, conducted case studies in districts where comprehensive and effective desegregation processes had been implemented. Greenburgh Central No. Seven, Greenburgh, New York, was selected as a site which had provided evidence of practices and policies…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects
Bilow, Scott – 1986
The results of centralization of one of the larger "small-rural" school districts in New York State are examined in this case study. The demographics of Yorkville and the feelings and opinions that residents have about their communities and schools are discussed first. Next, the history of the school system since 1950, when the district…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes
Direct linkPopkin, Susan J.; Galster, George C.; Temkin, Kenneth; Herbig, Carla; Levy, Diane K.; Richer, Elise K. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
Between 1992 and 1996 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) settled a number of legal cases involving housing authorities and agreed to take remedial action as part of court-enforced consent decrees entered into with plaintiffs. These housing authorities faced significant obstacles that impaired their ability to comply swiftly…
Descriptors: Public Housing, Neighborhood Integration, Compliance (Legal), Minority Groups
Canter, Gary – 1986
The circumstances preceding and following the 1984 merger of two small school districts in North Central New York State contained cooperation, controversy, and disharmony. The school districts had enough similarities--in their rural, agricultural base, in the pride and loyalty with which many residents viewed their schools, in the central role…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Galvin, Patrick – 1986
This case study considers why community members of two rural New York School districts reacted so strongly against a referendum for school district reorganization in February 1983. State and local school officials introduced into this reorganization effort a unique plan designed to achieve community support for the merger. Rather than have the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes
