Study of Participation in Governance by Representative Groups in Southeast Alternatives.

The purpose of this report is to provide information about the effectiveness of the Southeast Alternatives program. Major findings indicate that decentralization of the governance in the program has been accomplished through the establishment of representative advisory/governance groups; these groups have brought more, and different, people closer to the governance procedure in Southeast schools; the groups have included a variety of roles and organizational patterns; and these groups generally have not remained static. Groups that serve individual schools spend a majority of their time dealing with school-specific issues. More of this time is spent in planning programs and developing procedures for implementing those programs than is spent on budget and personnel issues. (Appendix B may reproduce poorly.) (Author/DN)