Site Based Management

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across the nation are exploring ways to better educate students and improve school performance. School-based management (SBM) offers a way to promote improvement by decentralizing control from central district offices to individual school sites. It attempts to give school constituents--administrators, teachers, parents and other community members--more control over what happens in schools.”

In summing up comments from different sources, I have the following observations regarding site- based management:

Site-based or school-based management shifts decision making authority from the central office to the local schools and communities;
Its’ core is the idea of participatory decision making at the
school site;
its main stated objective is to enhance student achievement;
it reverses a trend, evident at least since the mid - 1960's,
to try to improve school performance through general-purpose
infrastructures of public policy - regulation, mandate,
enforcement, and ...

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management team. In different school districts, formation of committee and sub-committees are solely based on the local school situation though every school district follows a general guideline proposed by the school board but there is no obligation of a local school to follow the board guideline. WHO REPRESENT THE COMMITTEE?

In most of the situation, there should be at least on person representing each of the following groups:
Parents
Teacher
Administrator
Students
Support staff
Business and community
Ethnic diversity and demographic composition
HOW MANY MEMBERS?

Though there is no hard and fast rule to form a committee, practical knowledge suggests ...

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