Local Management, Myth or Reality: A follow up study
Systems of local governance give greater decision-making power to the school site and, whilst they have the potential to offer a wide range of benefits to the school, they are perceived (by different stakeholders) to have been introduced for a number of different reasons, not all of which are necessarily beneficial to the school or the students

Developments in School Based Management: Queensland. Bob Lingard
A new pragmatic politics of education is required to ensure that new forms of governance in schooling meet the changing definitions and requirements of schooling and social justice in these new times.

Local Management in New Zealand Professor Wylie 1997
Wylie concludes that self-management has been good for New Zealand schools in the long term, despite a steep learning curve and some turbulence along the way.

DEXED: Charter Schools and Local School Based Management
A dialogue between members of an education department about the introduction of school-based management from the model of charter school in America.

Background Briefing - 19/07/1998: Schools of the Third Millennium
State and Federal government of all persuasions have set a trend that's led to private schools receiving a growing slice of public funds, and public schools developing a growing reliance on private funds

Dow, Jolliffe, O'Brein, Petherick: Bureaucracy bad, devolution good? The principal's role in an age of local decision-making
The purpose of this article is to examine the issue of 'devolution' and its impact on schools and the work of principals.

School-Based Management
SBM provokes fundamental changes in the schools and these need to be worked through before an acceptance of the concept occurs.

Collaboration and Community Services
In many schools across the country, leaders are helping develop collaboration between schools and other agencies and partnerships between schools and businesses .