Statistical Analysis IDENTIFIERS tHawaii

the School Community Based Management (SCBM) process for the Hawaii public school system, legislated in 1989, elicits input from administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and community members. SCBM shifts some of the decision making powers to the school and can be adopted by a school on a voluntary basis. This study develops a qualitative response model which attempts to explain an individual school's decision to adopt SCBM. The study applied a profit procedure using school-level characteristics and socioeconomic data for all of Hawaii's public schools. A subset of explanatory variables was identified as statistically significant in impact.ing the probability of adoption of SCBM. The variables that positively affected the choice to become an SCBM school included: (1) the percentage of students in attendance for the entire school year;.and (2) the percentage of classroom