Capacity and Control: Superintendent-School Board Relations in Locally Controlled Districts

IF 2.4 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Daniella Hall Sutherland
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Purpose: In the wake of school board protests nationwide, it is essential for educational leaders, policymakers, and researchers to understand locally controlled educational governance. The stability of educational districts depends on superintendents navigating relationships with their school boards, yet little research exists that addresses board–superintendent relationships in locally controlled districts. Using theories of local will and capacity, and community power relationships, I examine what factors shape the extent of local control enacted by school boards, and how these factors affect superintendent–school board relations. Research Methods: The qualitative case study design is bounded as one multi-district union superintendent and three rural school boards. Data collection included semistructured interviews, ethnographic observations, and document collection to understand the relational dynamics of local control. Data analysis included in vivo and a priori coding, and the development of analytic matrices. Findings: All boards demonstrated local will and some local capacity, which explained the dimensions of enactment of local control. Rural board capacity—tenure, expertise, and residency of board members—influenced the extent of local control. Cross-case analysis revealed a relationship between board capacity, community capacity, and board–superintendent relationships. These patterns are theorized as local control school board–superintendent relationships typology, based on board capacity and local community capacity. The relationships include role contestation, confusion, collaboration, and dependence. Implications for Research and Practice: The study expands the theory of local capacity to include community and board dimensions and describes the complexities of superintendent–board relationships. The study concludes with recommendations for practice, policy, and research on locally controlled school boards.
能力与控制:地方控制地区督学与学校董事会的关系
目的:在全国范围内的学校董事会抗议之后,教育领导者、政策制定者和研究人员必须了解地方控制的教育治理。教育区域的稳定取决于管理者与学校董事会之间的关系,然而很少有研究解决地方控制地区董事会与管理者之间的关系。利用地方意志和能力理论,以及社区权力关系,我研究了哪些因素塑造了学校董事会制定的地方控制程度,以及这些因素如何影响督学与学校董事会的关系。研究方法:定性案例研究设计以一个多区联合督学和三个农村学校董事会为界。数据收集包括半结构化访谈、人种学观察和文献收集,以了解地方控制的关系动态。数据分析包括体内和先验编码,以及分析矩阵的发展。研究发现:所有董事会都表现出地方意愿和一些地方能力,这解释了地方控制制定的维度。农村董事会的能力——任期、专业知识和董事会成员的居住地——影响地方控制的程度。跨案例分析揭示了董事会能力、社区能力和董事会-管理者关系之间的关系。这些模式被理论化为基于董事会能力和当地社区能力的地方控制学校董事会-督学关系类型。这种关系包括角色争夺、困惑、合作和依赖。对研究和实践的启示:本研究扩展了地方能力理论,将社区和董事会纳入其中,并描述了监督与董事会关系的复杂性。该研究总结了对地方控制的学校董事会的实践、政策和研究的建议。
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Educational Administration Quarterly
Educational Administration Quarterly EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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6.90
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9
期刊介绍: Educational Administration Quarterly presents prominent empirical and conceptual articles focused on timely and critical leadership and policy issues of educational organizations. As an editorial team, we embrace traditional and emergent research paradigms, methods, and issues. We particularly promote the publication of rigorous and relevant scholarly work that enhances linkages among and utility for educational policy, practice, and research arenas.
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