Toward an Understanding of Public School Politics

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ID3483149
AutoresThomas H Eliot (Washington University in St. Louis, autor correspondente)
Ano1959
Volume53
Fascículo4
Páginas1032-1051
Data de publicação1959-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1952073
OpenAlexW2042395092
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas8

Mounting concern over the aims and achievements of American public schools emphasizes the need for continuing analysis of how the schools are run and who runs them. The general theory is simple enough: schools are objects of local control, the people of a local school district exercise that control through an elected school board, and the board appoints a superintendent to act as the chief executive of the district. There are variations from this pattern-in some places school boards are appointed rather than elected, in others the school system is formally a part of the city government, and in a few districts other officials, such as a business manager or building superintendent, share the top executive authority-but it is by far the most common arrangement among the nation's approximately 50,000 school districts

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