NATIONAL FORUM OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION & SUPERVISION JOURNAL

VOLUME 31, NUMBER 3, 2014

FOREWORD
NATIONAL FORUM OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND
SUPERVISION JOURNAL

ith this issue, we complete our 31 st year of publishing the

NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS. All journals are national
refereed, blind-reviewed, peer-evaluated, juried professional
periodicals. Other articles are published on our national and world-wide
website: www.nationalforum.com. Since 1982, the NFEAS JOURNAL has
published the scholarly contributions of exactly 1,377 colleagues with
exactly 995 titles far surpassing any other modern day journal in
administration, both nationally and internationally. With each issue, the
NFEAS JOURNAL reaches professionals world-wide.
I want to thank all our colleagues who have served with distinction
as national referees. Thank you for providing input coupled with financial
support in helping to continue to build and strengthen the NFEAS
JOURNAL. You have my deepest appreciation for your honesty, wisdom,
advice, and monetary support.
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contributions of colleagues in order to help improve administration and
supervision in schools for the ultimate benefit of students. The NFEAS

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JOURNALS will persist in an effort to provide the venue for dissemination

of research that has the potential to provide the momentum for positive
change that leads to improvement in student learning and achievement.
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS
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NATIONAL FAREWELL: TEN YEARS OF EDITING THE

NATIONAL FORUM JOURNALS
Robert L. Marshall
Senior National Editor
This spring edition of the National FORUM of Educational
Administration and Supervision Journal is my final farewell to the editing
responsibility that I have enjoyed for ten years of my life. Over the course of
time as editor of this publication, I have experienced camaraderie and
professionalism as well as personal relationships of many contributors. The
collegial benefits of assisting educational professionals with their scholarly
agendas are indescribable with the written word. Advancing the careers of
junior faculty members and providing mentorship experiences are a noble
calling to say the least. When I began this venture ten years ago, I had no
idea of the many gratifying encounters that editing a journal would bring my
way. In this farewell, I want to thank those who contributed quality research
articles and professional manuscripts to the journal throughout my residency
as Senior National Editor. You have all made my life more satisfying and
robust as a result. Lastly, I want to thank William Kritsonis for providing
opportunities and guidance along the way while fostering the editorial
opportunities that has yielded esteem and respect among our colleagues.
In the first article of this edition, Don Jones, Marie-Anne Mundy,
and Carol Perez examined how school superintendents in the state of Texas
have grappled with the school finance budget cuts. The results of the study
indicated that school district superintendents in Texas employed a variety of
cost cutting measures to meet the financial demands of their school districts.

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In the second article, Carlos Trevino Calderon and Ernest

Zamora provide an exploration of how attitudes affect the programs
effectiveness. The qualitative component of the study was used to identify
two comparison groups of teachers and the quantitative component used
independent sample t tests of reading and math exams to compare the
academic performance of students across the two teacher groups.
The third article provided by Scott Niven, Chuck Holt, and Ray
Thompson measured the level of fairness of financial resources available to
school districts in the state of Texas by examining the per student resources
available to all Texas public schools.
In the fourth and fifth articles, Katharine Bridget Bourke and
Casey Graham Brown discuss the perspectives of public secondary school
principals on the process they utilize when hiring teachers. In addition, the
fifth article provides the perspectives of public secondary school principals
on hiring processes and practices, as well as the perceived impact of those
hiring decisions.
I wish to thank all the writers who have contributed to this issue of
the NATIONAL FORUM OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
AND SUPERVISION JOURNAL. Finally, I would like to personally thank
William Allan Kritsonis for providing this publishing and editorial
opportunity as we further advance in our quest for excellence in education.
Robert L. Marshall
Retired Senior National Editor
NFEAS Journal