COWGILL, BRUCE ERIC

Broad powers are granted to a local group, the school board, usually elected by the people in a district. While according to legal theory such boards have only the power that the law gives them, in actual practice the law is written in general rather than specific terms. . . . 1Included in the powers granted to school boards is that of selection and decisions on retention or dismissal of school administrators in their respective districts. Text books, yearbooks of national associations, monographs .. and other materials are almost countless... but the roots of some important principles in the management and supervision of schools reach farther back than the recent past. 2 The evaluation of the work of administrators by boards of education is not a recent development but rather has been going on through the years. While much has been done in the area of factors pertaining to successful admin- istration, as far as the author has been able to determine, one important group has, for the most part, been overlooked, -- namely the local school board. The opinions and thoughts of such board members, irregardless of what they might be or of how they might have been arrived at, are never-the-less of prime importance to school administrators, for it is these groups that pass judgment each year and evaluate the work of the superintendent

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUCCESS, OR FAILURE, OF ADMINISTRATORS IN NEBRASKA\u27S CLASS III SCHOOL DISTRICTS

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