Superintendent and School Board Member Turnover: Political Versus Apolitical Turnover as a Critical Variable in the Application of the Dissatisfaction Theory

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 667-698

  Alsbury, Thomas L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Board; Dissatisfaction; School; Superintendent; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342582142     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X03257141     Document Type: Article

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