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Bowers, Alex J.; Lee, Jooyoung – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2013
Purpose: Across the United States, a large percentage of school districts are in need of facility improvements to provide safe and adequate buildings to facilitate student learning. To finance new construction, school districts traditionally have put proposals before local voters to fund construction through issuing long-term bonds to finance…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Facilities, Bond Issues, Longitudinal Studies
Bowers, Alex J.; Sprott, Ryan – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Historically, students who fail to graduate from secondary school are considered as a single category of school dropouts. However, emerging literature indicates that there may be multiple subgroups of high school dropouts, termed a "dropout typology". The authors' purpose was to assess the extent to which a typology of dropouts was present in a…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Dropouts, Classification, High Schools
Urick, Angela; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2011
Using a nationally representative sample of public high schools (N = 439), we examined the extent to which the principal's perception of their influence over instruction, the evaluation of nonacademic related tasks as well as academic related tasks, and their relationship with the school district relates to their perception of academic climate…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, High Schools, School Districts, Educational Environment
Bowers, Alex J.; Metzger, Scott Alan; Militello, Matthew – Educational Policy, 2010
This study investigates parameters affecting the likelihood of passing school facility construction bonds by local district election. Using statewide data from Michigan, this study analyzes school bond data for urban (n = 30), suburban (n = 164), small town (n = 70), and rural (n = 241) school districts that held capital improvement bond elections…
Descriptors: Elections, School Districts, Bond Issues, Educational Facilities