School reform and restructuring: Self managing school

Abstract

This article provides a definition of the self-managing school and addresses four issues in the implementation and critique of self-managing schools: (1) the extent to which there has been an impact on learning, (2) mechanisms to allocate funds from the center of a school system to schools, (3) whether the decentralization of funds to the local level has increased the opportunity for corruption in the use of public funds, and (4) impact of self-management on the role of the principal and other school leaders. It is concluded that the practice will continue and that roles will change in significant ways. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.