Educ 110 ( code 0436 ) 12:30-1:30

Submitted by: Group 2

School-based management (SBM)

 A strategy to improve education by transferring significant decision-making

authority from state and district offices to individual schools. SBM provides

principals, teachers, students, and parents greater control over the education

process by giving them responsibility for decisions about the budget, personnel,

and the curriculum. Through the involvement of teachers, parents, and other

community members in these key decisions, SBM can create more effective

learning environments for children.

What are the advantages?

 School-based management, according to the American Association of School

Administrators (AASA), the National Association of Principals of Elementary

Schools (NAESP), the National Association of Principals of Secondary Schools

(NASSP), and other sources, can:

1. Allow competent individuals in the schools to make decisions that will

improve learning;

2. Give the entire school community a voice in key decisions;

3. Focus accountability for decisions;

4. Lead to greater creativity in the design of programs;

5. Redirect resources to support the goals developed in each school;

 6. Lead to realistic budgeting as parents and teachers become more aware

of the school's financial status, spending limitations, and the cost of its

programs; and,

7. Improve morale of teachers and nurture new leadership at all levels.

The principle of Subsidiarity

 Developed as part of Catholic Social Teaching, states: What individuals can

accomplish by their initiative and efforts should not be taken from them by a

higher authority. A larger and higher social agency must not take over the

responsibilities of subordinate organizations and deprive it of its competence. Its

purpose, rather, is to intervene in a subsidiary fashion (thus offering help) when

individuals or smaller institutions find that a task is beyond them.

 The subsidiarity principle is intended to ensure that decisions are taken as

closely as possible to the citizen and that constant checks are made as to

whether action at the Community level is justified in the light of the possibilities

available at the national, regional, or local level. Specifically, it is the principle

whereby the European Union does not take action (except in the areas which fall

within its exclusive competence) unless it is more effective than action taken at

the national, regional, or local level. It is closely bound up with the principles of

proportionality and necessity, which require that any action by the Union should

not go beyond what is necessary to achieve the objectives of the Treaty.

Leader:
 Zaide Grace Butihin
Members:
 Eden Love P. Cabesenio
 Beverly Eloise Bulawan
 Chyn Impoy
 Gevy Camacho