Document Type
Section VI Article
Abstract
Faced with unfavorable demographic and economic trends, many Iowa school districts have been seeking innovative ways of re-shaping themselves in order to continue providing high quality educational programs. Many districts, encouraged by legislative incentives are currently sharing grades, teaching staff, and administrators. During the 1988 fall semester, the authors solicited the opinions of superintendents who have been employed simultaneously in two or more neighboring districts. Based upon their responses during a semi-structured interview, we take the following position:
In the absence of sincere school board intentions to pursue grade sharing and possible reorganization with a partner district within three to five years, we strongly discourage administrators from entering a shared superintendency.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
96
Last Page
98
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1990 North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Decker, Robert and Talbot, Adrian
(1990)
"Section VI: Redesigning Iowa Rural Schools: Sharing, Restructuring or Consolidating [Decker & Talbot],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 37.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol1/iss1/37
