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ERIC Number: ED598240
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-May
Pages: 28
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-
EISSN: N/A
HISD's Decentralization Reform (Part II: Principal Survey). Research Brief for the Houston Independent School District. Volume 6, Issue 3
Moon, Jodi
Houston Education Research Consortium
This research brief is Part II of a four-part study of decentralization in the Houston Independent School District (HISD). This part reports HISD principal attitudes and satisfaction within the current decentralized model. HISD principals who elected to participate in the survey on average expressed positive statements about their degree program training and current level of efficacy related to their ability to: use data to identify student needs; communicate with teachers to identify student needs; and make staffing decisions to support student needs. They reported having autonomy over making the scheduling, instructional, and staffing decisions that are best for their students. They further reported being supported by HISD central administration in the fundamental roles that principals are expected to fulfill in the current decentralized model: analyzing the data to best determine their students' needs; making staffing, instructional and scheduling decisions based on that analysis, and; preparing a budget that reflects those needs. Findings do suggest possible opportunities including professional development for first year principals about how to make staffing decisions to support student needs and a review of the budget analyst protocols and/or an efficiency study of the support provided by budget analysts to each campus.
Houston Education Research Consortium. 6100 Main Street, MS-258, Houston, Texas 77005. Tel: 713-348-2532; e-mail: herc@rice.edu; Web site: https://kinder.rice.edu/houston-education-research-consortium
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Rice University, Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC)
Identifiers - Location: Texas (Houston)
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A