School restructuring through participant empowerment has gained national attention. One restructuring effort, The Empowered School District Project, is a three-year endeavor to facilitate the creation of empowered schools in nine school districts across the country. A primary objective is to study the change process in these schools in order to understand key variables significant in the facilitation of school empowerment. The results of the three-year study are reported in this article.
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