Dwindling Resources and Funding: Superintendents' Leadership and School Board Members’ Decision-Making and Students’ Well-being and Academic Outcomes Remain a Challenge

Authors

  • Ann Toler Hilliard Bowie State University, USA
  • Renee A. Foose Bowie State University, USA Harriett Kargbo, Coppin State University, USA
  • Harriett Kargbo Coppin State University, USA
  • Charles H. Talbert Jackson Educational Consultants Institute, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.99.13110

Keywords:

Superintendent, Board Members, Funding Sources, Student Well-being

Abstract

Superintendents have many challenges in performing the job in most school districts. A high percentage of superintendents see the most challenging tasks are to improve the performance of diverse underprepared students, how to help students who come to school from high poverty areas who need so much help and recruiting and maintaining quality teachers to work in schools. Other challenges for superintendents are strengthening academic rigor, budget shortfalls, recruiting and retaining principals/teachers, and rising demands for assessment from the state and federal levels. Superintendents are concerned about students being safe in schools, being successful in careers and education in post- secondary settings in a rapidly changing economy and a highly technologically driven society (Noonoo, 2018).

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2022-09-24

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Hilliard, A. T., Foose, R. A., Kargbo, H., & Jackson, C. H. T. (2022). Dwindling Resources and Funding: Superintendents’ Leadership and School Board Members’ Decision-Making and Students’ Well-being and Academic Outcomes Remain a Challenge. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 9(9), 513–518. https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.99.13110

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Vol. 9 No. 9 (2022): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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