Structure of Domination, Organizational Culture and the Facilitation of Feelings in the Partnership

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-334
Author(s):  
Devendra Bhagat
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Governing Board ◽  
Naturalistic Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Controlling Behavior ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
The Cost

Creating partnerships between school districts and universities are seen as a way to attain educational renewal. One such partnership exists between the BYU College of Education and the public schools in Central Utah. Following the naturalistic inquiry technique, this study attempted to evaluate the partnership participants' feelings and the extent to which the organization affected those feelings. The study showed that there is an undue need for control of others by members of the Governing Board of the Partnership, manifested in a structure of domination, at the cost of positive feelings and the mutual goodwill of partners. Besides being incongruent with partnership philosophy, this controlling behavior has created a sense of lack of care by the organization. The article suggests ways to resolve this problem.

Performance-Based Staff Layoffs in the Public Schools: Implementation and Outcomes

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Moore Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Local School ◽  
The Public ◽  
Teacher Layoffs

In response to declining school enrollments, some local school districts are using performance criteria to determine the order of teacher layoffs. In this article, Susan Moore Johnson reviews efforts to implement such practices in four local school districts. The findings of the study indicate that performance-based layoff policies are not easily translated into practice. Furthermore, interviews with principals in these districts suggest that the unintended consequences of performance-based layoff practices may limit their educational worth.

Meeting the Critical Shortage of Speech-Language Pathologists to Serve the Public Schools—Collaborative Rewards

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda I. Rosa-Lugo ◽  
Elizabeth A. Rivera ◽  
Susan W. McKeown
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
School Districts ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
School Employees ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
The Public ◽  
Practicum Experiences

This article presents a collaborative approach to providing graduate education to speech-language pathologists who are employed in public school districts. A partnership called the Central Florida Speech-Language Consortium was established among the University of Central Florida, 10 Central Florida school districts, and community agencies to address the issue of the critical shortage of speech-language pathologists in the public schools. The consortium program provided bachelor-level speech-language pathologists in the public schools the opportunity to obtain a master’s degree while they continued to work in the schools. Key innovations of the program included: (a) additional graduate slots for public school employees; (b) modifications in the location and time of university courses, as well as practica opportunities in the schools; and (c) the participation and support of public school administrators in facilitating supervision and practicum experiences for the consortium participants. The consortium program resulted in an increase in the number of master’s level and culturally and linguistically diverse speech-language pathologists available for employment in the public schools of Central Florida. Recommendations for facilitating future endeavors are discussed.

Diagnostic Examination of Children With Voice Disorders

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda H. Leeper
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
School District ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Underserved Population ◽  
Public School District ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
The Public

Children with voice disorders in the public schools are frequently cited as an underserved population. One of the reasons for this problem most often mentioned by speech-language pathologists is the difficulty in obtaining laryngeal examinations prior to beginning direct treatment for this population. A series of three, low-cost, half-day voice clinics was created to serve the needs of speech-language pathologists and children with voice disorders in the Las Cruces (New Mexico) Public School District. Results describing the population seen at these clinics are reported, along with a detailed delineation of the logistics involved in clinic operation. The model presented here is proposed for replication in other school districts.

Resistance through Exodus

2018 ◽  
pp. 188-212
Author(s):  
Natalie G. Adams ◽  
James H. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Private School ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
School Age ◽  
The Public ◽  
White Community ◽  
White Resistance ◽  
White School

This chapter suggests that the establishment of private segregationist academies throughout the state was the ultimate form of white resistance to school desegregation. In some school districts, the entire white, school-age population left the public schools in the first few years of desegregation, never to return. However, the varied responses to private schools also demonstrates that the white community was not unified or homogeneous in its beliefs about race, the role of public schools for a strong community, or the personal choices parents should make on behalf of their children's education. Indeed, the public–private school debate divided the white community in some towns, leaving severed friendships and church divisions in its wake.

Job Training Placement for Retarded Youth

1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conwell G. Strickland
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Job Training ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cooperative Program ◽  
Types Of Jobs ◽  
Training Opportunities

A survey was made to determine the types of jobs to which educable retarded youth were assigned for on-the-job training. It was based on the first year operation of the Texas state-wide Cooperative Program of Special Education-Vocational Rehabilitation in the public schools. Data received from 60 percent of the participating school districts provided information concerning 436 pupils who were assigned to 99 different jobs. The jobs were distributed among ten categories and one miscellaneous group. Findings of this study suggest diverse job training opportunities for educable retarded youth.

The Scope of Bargaining and Bargaining Outcomes in the Public Schools

ILR Review ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Woodbury
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Class Size ◽  
Independent School ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Independent School Districts ◽  
Analyze Data

This study examines state-to-state variations in the legality of bargaining over class size in public schools, to determine, first, whether these variations in the legal scope of bargaining bear any relationship to actual class sizes and, second, whether these variations are indirectly associated with teachers' salaries. Using a model of the quality of education to analyze data from the 1977 Census of Governments on 4,851 independent school districts, the author concludes that restrictions on class-size bargaining are associated with both larger student-teacher ratios and higher teachers' salaries. He also finds that the availability of voluntary arbitration and the limited right to strike are related to lower student-teacher ratios.

A Rural County Speech and Language Program

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hildegarde Traywick
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Language Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
Madison County

This paper describes the organization and implementation of an effective speech and language program in the public schools of Madison County, Alabama, a rural, sparsely settled area.

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