In response to widespread dissatisfaction with the schools, the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act decentralized school … governance by forming elected local school councils (LSCs) responsible for principal hiring, evaluation, and contract renewal as … incorporates potential differences in LSC capacity and incentives to maximize school quality. Using proxies for managerial capacity …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

This paper provides an overview of the present state of management of school systems in the Republic of Serbia, and … discusses the issue of introducing professional school management. Present underdevelopment of school management reflects the … suffers from poor cooperation between parents and school. The survey was conducted in 12 schools in the Republic of Serbia …

We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence … suggests decentralization has facilitated collusion between village authorities and marginalized private schools, with …

school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations … (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly …

been considerable public pressure for decentralization of education in DMCs in recent years. This pressure has been driven …