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In some countries there has been a general trend toward
centralizing control in areas such as the development and
measurement of school goals while also increasing
responsibility at the school level for financial and
staffing decisions and for structuring learning
activities to achieve those goals. The British and New
Zealand educational reforms of the late 1980s are a case
in point. While a national curriculum and evaluation
system was being introduced, control of staffing and
school budgets was being devolved to the school. A
similar trend toward a national curriculum and statewide
testing is evident in Victoria, Australia, particularly
in the Schools of the Future. This paper examines data
from school-effectiveness studies over the last decade
and a half to answer the following questions about
decentralization: whether or not there should be further
decentralization of decision making; what arrangements
should be made to ensure effectiveness; and how such
decentralization should be funded. The research is
inconclusive about whether the self-managing school will
improve student outcomes. Certainly the case could be
made that if student outcomes remain the same, but are
achieved at considerably less cost to the public, then
the move toward decentralization has been worthwhile.
However, initial findings suggest that the decrease in
funding has entailed a human cost in the form of
increased workloads for principals, teachers, and
parents. (Contains 69 references.) (LMI)
Date Published: 2015-12-15 14:17:21
Identifier: ERIC_ED398625
Item Size: 34659954
Language: english
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