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Direct linkTuba Gökmenoglu; Elif Dasci Sönmez; Ceyda Durmus – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This study employed an explanatory sequential design and mixed methods to investigate school principals' perspectives on parent-teacher associations (PTAs). The research involved a large sample of 3,606 school principals or senior managers who participated in a survey and a smaller subsample of 6 principals who engaged in a focus group interview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Álvarez-Álvarez, Carmen – Improving Schools, 2020
The involvement of families in Spanish schools is a legally recognised right, a social demand, an educational need and a permanent challenge. However, there are limited opportunities for families to become engaged with schools in Spain. Their primary avenues for involvement are Parents' Associations ("Asociaciones de Madres y Padres de…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parent Associations, Public Schools
Hill, Sarah A.; Kiewiet, Roderick; Arsneault, Shelly – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
In California, a half century after the landmark "Serrano v. Priest" decision overturning the state's public school finance system because of the inequality between the state's school districts, a significant amount of wealth-based inequality in per-pupil expenditures continues to exist. One of the sources of this inequality is the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Equal Education, Court Litigation, Educational Finance
Lilliedahl, Jonathan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This study examines parental involvement in urban public schools, focusing on how parents in organised school-centred networks support, navigate, and negotiate from their different social positions. The multiple case study of specialised music programmes provides insights into parent strategies and behaviours in intermediate practices between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Murray, Brittany C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Wealthy parents in public school districts across the country are engaged in elaborate fund-raising efforts to improve the quality of education in their children's schools, giving them an advantage over families in schools without the same level of access to external resources. Through evaluating parent responses to district policies that address…
Descriptors: Parent Associations, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Public Schools, Financial Support
Mitchell, Rafael – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
Recent policies in Ethiopia put students at the heart of school improvement through structures for peer leadership and school-level consultation, evaluation and decision-making. This article draws on an ethnographic study of a government school in Tigray, Ethiopia, to explore how the participation and influence of students is achieved and mediated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools
