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ERIC Number: EJ352971
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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The Bureaucratization of a County Schools Office: An Historical Field Study of the County Superintendent of Schools Office.
Hendrick, William Edward; Ortiz, Flora Ida
Research in Rural Education, v3 n3 p137-47 Spr 1986
Shows how county superintendent of schools office was created to provide public services and evolved into highly bureaucratized organization. Examines complexity of society; legislated mandates/authorizations for services relationship to state department of education; quality of leadership; interaction with county board of education; organizational tasks, control, and maintenance; process of bureaucratization. (NEC)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Bureaucracy, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change, Organizational Objectives, Rural Education, School Administration, School Districts, Superintendents
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Historical Materials
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: California; California (Riverside County); County Superintendents of Schools