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Peer reviewedSussman, Leila; Speck, Gayle – Urban Education, 1973
Observation of several community-school groups in Boston has led the authors to conclude that most of these groups are small, weak, and vulnerable to internal disruption; their impact on the substance of education has been thus far slight. (DM)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Decentralization
Peer reviewedCriswell, Larry W.; Mitchell, Douglas E. – Urban Education, 1980
Presents data from four California districts supporting the Iannaconne/Lutz theory that democratic control of school district policy occurs through episodic voter dissatisfaction leading to incumbent defeat and changes in school administration. Further asserts that the typical length of a change episode extends for as many as four successive…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Board Candidates, Board of Education Policy, Community Attitudes
Peer reviewedButton, Warren; McGruder, Phyllis N. – Urban Education, 1977
Discusses the provocation and course of, and issues involved in, a teachers' strike in Buffalo, New York, at the start of the 1976-1977 school year from several points of view: namely, those of an assistant superintendent, several teachers, and outside observers. (JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
