| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,580,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This report consists of the following compositions. The first are meanings, purposes and the process of this research. The second is the role of local school boards in the process of education policy. The third are the trends and challenges of U.S. local educational governance. The fourth are the transformation of U.S. educational governance and the problems educational administration research face. And the fifth are mayoral leadership and involvement in education. In the first section, the author described the outline of the meaning of this research, the purpose and research cost. The second and the third sections made reference about the realities and problems of U.S. local school boards, including the way, influences and the criticism of mayoral takeover, and the author suggested the possibilities of reorganization of American educational system which have been characterized as the federal-state-local trilaminar structure. While we engage in an active debate about the reorganization of school boards in Japan, noted above discussion may cast a stir into that discussion. And the discussion might give a serious suggestion to educational administration research. In the fourth section, as the mayoral takeover is almost always accompanying privatization of the public school, I suggested the influences of research about the promotion of privatization and school choice policy. In the end, this report includes Japanese translation version of the document published by the United States Conferences of Mayors, which have the theoretical rationale for the mayoral takeover. Within this document, the mayors of the individual city are discussing the basis of promotion of mayoral takeover in the column. On the whole, this document are illustrating the significance of promoting this policy based on the understandings of the merit and demerit.
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