Here is a Table of Contents for the September-October 1999 issue of Illinois School Board Journal.
Highlighted articles are available here in full-text form.
In a special article for the Journal, a policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States reports on the preliminary findings of a task force studying school governance. School governance proposals misguided by Peter S. Weber IASB's deputy executive director for advocacy analyzes the draft proposals of the ECS task force - and explains why they aren't improvements at all. Your school board can make a positive contribution to quality education by making sure you are answering the right questions and by honoring diversity on the board. School boards govern best by Angie Peifer School reformers have yet to find a better way to govern schools than by elected boards of education. But the studies challenge school boards to make sure they are doing the work they are elected to do.