The most important early staff decision would be the selection of an organizer to drive the action plan. (educationnext.org)
But the school board members sometimes ignore staff decisions. (laschoolreport.com)
Today I'm thinking about how and why we got to this point in the evolution (painfully slow as it is) in K - 12 education that we need to put so much emphasis on the test scores of students within an individual teacher's room, in a sense to force accountability for good performance from the outside of the school (i.e. we're not increasing the power of the principal to make staff decisions from the inside). (teached.org)