This compilation of Georgia standards for public education targets two types of standards: those required of a school or local school system and those for field-test purposes (for possible future standards). Standards are stated briefly and accompanied by interpretations and references to Georgia law or Georgia Board of Education policy. Space is…

To clarify the role of the consultant in the search for and selection of a superintendent, this manual explains the obligations and expectations of boards, consultants, and applicants in the search and selection process and provides standards for hiring a consultant. School boards are provided guidelines for evaluating consultants' proposals and…

Recounts what it is like to be a school board member during a teacher strike. (IRT)

Operating a large school system somewhat resembles managing a large corporation--especially regarding goal orientation. Although educators are enjoined to provide the best possible education for youngsters, staff in large systems may be working at cross-purposes. School board members in DeKalb County, Georgia, are pursuing greater achievement…

Crime in the New York City schools will continue to grow unless radically different policies are quickly implemented by the central school board in order to effectively cope with an increasingly crime-prone student population. (EH)

Asserts that the tide against incumbents is so strong right now that a large number of them will be thrown off their school boards in the months ahead. Offers advice to save them from defeat at the polls. (Author/WM)

The apparatus that the various States use to govern and coordinate their public colleges and universities has been substantially redesigned in the last 20 years. Especially dramatic has been the proliferation of "coordinating boards," those State agencies that occupy the legal and political turf between the various universities (which have their…

Child care specialists, parents, and "right to education" advocates have joined forces to change attitudes, and to work for policies and programs that bring every child, regardless of disability, into education's mainstream. The author reviews this trend within its implications for school boards. (Author)

Without a written commitment, a board's intentions about communicating with the public are not clear and are often misunderstood. (Author)

Report of a national conference at the University of Chicago's Center for Continuing Education, November 12-14, 1967.

One purpose of this paper was to describe the present process of machine government and private-regarding practices in local school government. Another purpose was to theorize from these data, based on selected conceptual notions, about the political process in educational governance. Data for the study came from a Pennsylvania superintendent…

SELECTION OF A PRESIDENT IS ONE OF A COLLEGE BOARD'S GREATEST RESPONSIBILITIES AND CALLS FOR A HIGH LEVEL OF PROFESSIONALISM AND MUTUAL RESPECT ON THE PART OF THE BOARD MEMBERS. THE CRITERIA AND QUALIFICATIONS TO BE MET BY CANDIDATES ARE DEPENDENT ON THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE, LOCAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE TYPE OF PERSON SOUGHT, SPECIAL…

THE AUTHOR STATES THAT GROWING DEMANDS BY ORGANIZED TEACHERS FOR NEGOTIATION CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS AND POLICY FORMULATION HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY A WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT SUCH BARGAINING THROUGH PROCEDURES WHICH DO NOT INTERRUPT ORDERLY SCHOOL OPERATION. TRADITIONAL LEGAL AUTHORITY OF LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION TO MAKE UNILATERAL POLICY…