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Direct linkKeddie, 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
Hashim, 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
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
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
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
Download full textPankovits, Tressa; Osborne, David – Progressive Policy Institute, 2020
Across the country, urban school districts are moving beyond industrial-era systems by creating "innovation" or "partnership" schools that have the freedom to reinvent the way they educate students. The Progressive Policy Institute released a how-to guide for legislators, district leaders, and advocates who want to create more…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation
Lam 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
Corbett, Julie – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2015
Persistently low-achieving public schools around the country have received $5.8 billion from the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, in addition to districts and state funds, and other supplementary federal funds. Despite all of these sources of funding, most of the schools receiving them have failed to make a dramatic difference in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School District Autonomy, School Turnaround
OECD Publishing, 2017
The future of Greece's well-being will depend on improving educational performance to raise employment and social outcomes. The challenges are significant, as public education expenditure in Greece has declined in recent years and learning outcomes are weak. To help the Greek government address these challenges, this report proposes a set of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement, Professional Autonomy
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
Sinnema, Claire; Nieveen, Nienke; Priestley, Mark – Curriculum Journal, 2020
The proposed Curriculum for Wales 2022 presents a bold new vision for curriculum, teaching and learning. Together with its focus on four key purposes, it affords substantially more flexibility and autonomy to teachers and schools, positions learners as central to curriculum decision making, promotes active forms of pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Professional Autonomy
Greany, Toby – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
This article reviews the literature and explores the institutional and systemic factors that help and/or hinder change and innovation across school systems, with a focus on evidence from England. A number of authors have argued that schools and school systems need to become more innovative and adaptive if they are to meet the needs of 21st-century…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Altrichter, Herbert; Heinrich, Martin; Soukup-Altrichter, Katharina – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
The Austrian "school autonomy policy", which allowed schools to develop specific "curricular profiles", is taken as an example for discussing processes and effects of school decentralization policies. Data from school case studies (based on qualitative interviews and document analysis) are used to analyse and interpret the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, School District Autonomy, Educational Policy
McEnroe, Ted – Boston Foundation, 2014
While structural reform has certainly inspired change in Boston's public schools, its true value is best measured by examining the impact those changes have had on students. Seen through the lens of student performance over the past five years there is ample suggestion that these structural changes have been more than just window dressing--they…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Outcomes of Education
