This paper examines the concepts of educational governance and educational politics, explores issues related to these concepts (with the aid of selected references to the American setting), and describes and analyzes developments in teacher selection for Israeli junior high schools. These developments demonstrate interrelationships between educational governance and educational politics. The final objective of the report is to construct a model for the purpose of analyzing similar interrelationships in other selected cultures. Underlining the model is the proposition that while educational governance is culture bound, patterns of educational politics are culture free. (Tables 1, 2, and 3 may reproduce poorly in hard copy because of marginal legibility). (Author)