... bureaucracy with adhocracy and transferring decision-making authority and responsibility from government bodies to school authorities (Khanal and Guha, 2023). As an emergent mechanism, school-based management (SBM) is being widely implemented to achieve this transformation and reform in countries...

... shows the value of school autonomy for educational performance. The author defines school autonomy as the operational empowerment of the principals and teachers. Therefore, the government could grant greater autonomy to public schools (school-based management), since school autonomy is a driver...

...James Ko; Yin Cheong Cheng; Theodore Tai Hoi Lee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to trace the development of school autonomy and accountability and related multiple changes and impacts in key areas of school education in Hong Kong since implementing school-based management (SBM) from 1990s...

.... Leadership Self-management School autonomy Paradigm shift in education Twenty-first century learning School-based management Different types of school autonomy may relate differently to PISA performance. The 2009 and 2012 PISA results showed that schools with more autonomy over curriculum...

... school since no subsidized primary schools offer her a place (Parent informant 2). Hong Kong Schools Governance Parents School governance Parent involvement School‐based management Home‐school relations Decentralization of power Parent governors Cheng (2007) argues...

... trends of school‐based management (SBM) strategies, which devolve to schools a series of functions that were previously in the hands of central and local government (Dimmock, 1993). Despite these changes, there is still a centralized system, where principals and governing bodies have little power...