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Direct linkHashim, Ayesha K.; Torres, Chris; Kumar, Jacqueline M. – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
Although policies aiming to increase school-based autonomy are commonplace, we know little about how school actors use autonomy to improve organizational performance in varied contexts. This paper surfaces perspectives from school leaders and teachers on the effectiveness of autonomy and describes how these perspectives vary across schools. We use…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, School Effectiveness, Administrator Attitudes, Principals
Melissa A. Spash – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In an environment of increased accountability and autonomy for school leaders, insufficient assistance relationships between school leaders and district staff hinder the ability of principals to utilize autonomy in ways that translate to improved instruction and student performance. This study sought to examine and strengthen the assistance…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy, Urban Schools, School Districts
Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Mette Liljenberg; Åsa Hirsh; Anette Jahnke; Åsa Karlsson Pérez – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
In the decentralized Swedish school system, the local education authority (LEA) level has an important position when it comes to school governance. This article takes a micro-level perspective on principals' perceptions of autonomy and control as they navigate local school administration in their front-line work in low - socio-economic status…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment
Download full textLam D. Pham; Gage F. Matthews; Timothy A. Drake – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
While multiple studies have examined the impact of school turnaround, less is known about reforms under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). To advance this literature, we examine North Carolina's Restart (NCR) model. NCR aligns with ESSA by giving school leaders increased flexibility. Also, NCR differs from previous turnaround models by…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, School Turnaround, Educational Change
Karcher, Hailey; Knight, David S. – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal government allocates 7% of Title I funds, about $1 billion per year, for school improvement. States have substantial autonomy in allocating these funds, including which schools are identified for federal school improvement, what improvement strategies are used, and whether external intermediaries…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Finance
Stevenson, Lars; Honingh, Marlies; Neeleman, Annemarie – School Leadership & Management, 2021
Over the last decade the governance of primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands has by no means become simpler. This paper sketches recent policy developments and their consequences for the leadership of Boards of Multiple Schools (BMSs) and their school leaders. Thereof we describe the challenges BMSs in the Netherlands currently face to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governing Boards, Governance, Networks
Chapman, Susan – Curriculum Journal, 2020
In the large volume of research on curriculum reform, very little attention is paid to the implications of geographical location, yet, this can be significant. The current curriculum reform process in Wales has presented an opportunity for schools to radically change their practice. While rural schools have welcomed this opportunity, they face…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, School Location, Rural Schools, Educational Change
Oosterhoff, Arda; Oenema-Mostert, Ineke; Minnaert, Alexander – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
Early childhood teachers worldwide feel that their ability to act according to their professional knowledge and values is constrained. This sense of constraint is commonly attributed to the pressures of accountability policies, aimed at ensuring and improving educational quality. By law, Dutch schools are free to choose how they design their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Autonomy, Early Childhood Teachers, Foreign Countries
Boyask, Ruth – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
The transnational trend towards school autonomy has been enacted in England through the academies programme. The programme is poised to enter its third phase of expansion in light of government commitment to the conversion of all state-funded schools to academies. This article considers the moral implications of the expansion of the programme that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, School District Autonomy, Educational Trends
Newton, Paul; da Costa, Jose – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on the policy and practice contexts for school autonomy and twenty-first century learning in Canadian provinces. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reports on an analysis of policies in Canadian provinces (particularly the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan). The authors review policies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Eacott, Scott – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
Contemporary discourses in educational administration have exponentially grown the number of adjectival leaderships, challenged traditional organisational structures, and offered autonomy as a solution to performance issues. In this theoretical paper, I ask "what does the principalship look like after autonomy?" Despite the range of…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Autonomy, Educational Administration, Administrator Role
Bill Kottenstette; Paola Paga – Colorado Department of Education, 2024
The Innovation Schools Act of 2008, § 22-32.5-102, et seq. C.R.S., was designed to provide a pathway for schools and districts to develop and implement innovative practices in a wide variety of areas and contexts to improve student outcomes. The Act provides a formal process that allows schools or groups of schools to make requests to their local…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, School District Autonomy
Lídia Serra; José Alves; Diana Soares – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
The inconsistencies between agents of the educational system, where it reigns tensions and disjointed mechanisms that express failures of multidisciplinary action, make schools behave like pseudomorphic systems. This article examines interactions between autonomy and control, resorting to a qualitative study with a quantitative approach to…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, School District Autonomy, Government School Relationship
Anne West; David Wolfe; Basma B. Yaghi – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
School-based education in England has undergone significant changes since 2010, with a huge expansion of academies, schools outside local authority control, funded directly by central government. Academies and local authority (LA) maintained schools are subject to different legislative and regulatory frameworks. This paper focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Secondary Schools, School District Autonomy
