What are the educational benefits of site-based decision making?
Site-based decision making places the school at the center of planning, goal setting, and budgeting for school improvement. It provides additional opportunities for teachers and administrators who are closest to the teaching learning process to be innovative and creative. Site-based decision making also allows teachers and administrators to work with parents and the community to become more responsive to the needs of a particular school’s population. For example, the teachers at a particular school may find that, because of the characteristics of their students, they have a need for a particular type of in-service training that is not offered or needed district-wide. Under site-based decision making, this school may be given the discretionary authority over staff development resources to meet this need. How does the establishment of school councils enhance the benefits of site-based decision making? School councils enhance site-based decision making because they expand the participatio
