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ERIC Number: EJ163584
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation: Implementing Special-Education Reform
Weatherley, Richard; Lipsky, Michael
Harvard Educational Review, 47, 2, 171-97, 77
Examines the implementation of Chapter 766, the dramatically innovative state special-education law in Massachusetts. Shows how the necessary coping mechanisms that individual school personnel use to manage the demands of their jobs may, in the aggregate, constrain and distort the implementation of special-education reform. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Practices, Government Employees, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Research Methodology, Special Education, Specialists, Student School Relationship, Tables (Data)
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