Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
This group's task was to identify major legal/governance issues related to school-based, shared decision-making that need to be resolved. The group first set definitions for which issues would be considered legal and those which would be considered governance. Legal issues, the group determined, are those issues concerned with external controls to the school district, generally imposed by the legislature and/or by the federal government and the Constitution. Governance issues, the group decided, are those local decisions made within the boundaries of external, legal constraints. It was within these definitions that the group began deliberations.
Early in the conference the group sketched a vision of what governance would look like if the issues related to this area could be resolved. That vision, it was decided, would be characterized through the use of flexible and evolving processes in problem solving at levels closest to the teaching and learning process. Those involved in the process would determine long-range views of school and community needs and would respond appropriately. It was agreed that no one model would emerge, but communities would develop what worked best in their particular situation.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
115
Last Page
120
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1994 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Rice, Ronald and Esveld, Louise
(1994)
"Issue Area Four: Identification of Legal/Governance Issues Related to School-Based Shared Decision-Making: What Needs to be Resolved?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 34.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss1/34
