Document Type
Issue Area Four
Abstract
For the purpose of this paper, as well as for real and effective educational reform, I maintain that school-based means the individual school buildings or programs within the buildings. I interpret shared decision-making as a process whereby the teachers, the support staff, and the parents truly participate in discussions and democratically reach consensus about the operation of their school. For such sharing of decisions to occur, the prevalent model of top-down management has to be modified.
The primary legal issues in school-based shared decision-making are: Who has the responsibility to make and execute decisions in behalf of the school corporation, and how are such decisions supported or defended? The primary governance issue is related-who yields the power, the control, the clout? The practice over time has been to clothe the school board and its appointed administrators with all the power. Board approval of certain administrative decisions such as staffing, budgeting, purchasing, contracting, or setting the curriculum or discipline standards completes the hierarchal control.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
144
Last Page
147
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
White, Roger L.
(1994)
"Modifying Top-Down Management Model Necessary for Real Reform,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 41.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss1/41
