Local Control and School Boards 2. NC Governor Hunt Recognizes the Connection 3. Six Principles of School Design 4. In Support of E-Rate 5. Grassroots Advocates Work to Impact State Reform Commission 6.
Local control is a concept that tends to generate extreme loyalty or, conversely, high anxiety.
The concept may include control over curriculum, direct voting on the district budget, input into hiring the administration, ability to locally define assessment plans, etc. Many of these areas are powers traditionally assigned to school board members. The Rural Challenge Policy Program has been investigating this question using a survey sent to executive directors of the state school boards association. We have developed several measures of local control that are being combined with other national data. One index of local control is the number of students per school board member, a second is the number of schools that school boards govern.