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WHAT IS SITE-BASED MANAGEMENT? Site-based management may be the most significant reform of the decade--a potential force for empowering educators and communities. Yet no two people agree on what it is, how to do it, or even why to do it. WHAT IS IT? So what is si ....

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.... to an accountability system with consequences tied to student performance, or it may not be.” According to Priscilla Wohlstetter and Susan Albers Mohrman, “school leaders across the nation are exploring ways to better educate students and improve school performance. School-based management (SBM) offers a way to promote improvement by decentralizing control from central district offices to individual school sites. It attempts to give school constituents--administrators, teachers, parents and other community members--more control over what happens in schools.” In summing up comments from different sources, I have the following observations re ....