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Keller, Ernest R. – OSSC Report, 1989
The director of curriculum support services at Oregon's Wasco Education Service District discusses methods that superintendents, board members, and school leaders can use to control conflicts in their school organizations. Surveyed were 239 Oregon school board members and 135 superintendents who were asked to identify which of the following…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation
SNOW, R.J. – 1967
TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCHOOL SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS MAY BE DISTINCT IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND CONFLICT PROPENSITY, THE VOTING RECORDS, SOCIOECONOMIC DATA, AND ASPECTS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION INTERACTION WITH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS OF FOUR SUBURBAN ILLINOIS COMMUNITIES WERE ANALYZED. A COMPARISON OF CONSTRAINTS AND SUPPORTS FOR THE…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Resources, Conflict, Decision Making
Oregon State Board of Higher Education, Salem. – 1969
The purposes of this report were: (1) to provide information concerning the policies of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education as they relate to institutional governance, with particular reference to student participation; and to provide a description of the policies and practices adopted in the colleges and universities of the state system…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Governance
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St. Louis, Larry; McNamara, James F. – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1973
A decision model is presented for use in connection with data that are currently available in State departments of education to determine economies of scale for a State system of public school districts. An application of the model to the State of Oregon illustrates how economies of scale information for a State system can be used by policymakers…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decision Making
Katagiri, George – 1972
Oregon's Dissemination Program was established in July 1970. Its purpose was to close the communication gap between validated information and the decision making processes related to school administration and instruction. The program was administered by a staff of six, two of whom were assigned to pilot Intermediate Education District offices. The…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communications, Computer Programs, Decision Making
Fisher, James R. – 1969
The decade of the 1960's witnessed an ever-increasing demand by members of the teaching profession for a greater voice in the determination of policies affecting the educational system. Teachers pressed for a more active role in what previously had been considered an administrative function. For this investigation of Oregon educator attitudes…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Analysis of Variance, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining
Robinson, John W. – 1971
This study is concerned with an analysis of similarities and differences in role expectations among the populations of principals, teachers, superintendents, and board members in two suburban school districts in Oregon. It attempts to identify the levels of agreement within each of these populations regarding the principal's role in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining
CARSON, ROBERT B.; AND OTHERS – 1967
TO EXAMINE THE ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF TEACHERS AS SOCIAL PARTICIPANTS WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND IN THE COMMUNITY, QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY DATA WERE ANALYZED FROM A 62 PERCENT RESPONSE OF TEACHERS (508 OF 816 TOTAL) AND A 93 PERCENT RESPONSE OF NONTEACHERS (81 OF 87 TOTAL) IN THREE WESTERN OREGON COMMUNITIES. AS VIEWED BY TEACHERS, NORMATIVE EXPECTATIONS…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Leaders, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Duke, Daniel L. – 1984
How schools weather budget reductions shows the difference between effective and less effective school systems. Policymakers' response to reductions depends on an array of factors: general economic conditions, access to data about future trends, community expectations and "myths," past records of school effectiveness, local education…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Budgeting, Costs, Decision Making