Education reformers in the United States have long debated whether school districts should
centralize decisionmaking authority in the district office or decentralize it to let schools take the reins.
Arnulf Grubler, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, wrote in a 2010 paper published in the journal Energy Policy that France's success in nuclear energy stemmed from establishing a standard design for reactors,
centralized decisionmaking and certainty that the government was committed to nuclear power.
Not exact matches
The OneApp has reduced opportunities for schools to engage in these behaviors by transferring
decisionmaking authority in admissions from schools to the
centralized process.
«If the attitude is still toward
centralized and elitist
decisionmaking that is not open to the people's participation, these changes won't mean anything,» he added.