This textbook provides a thorough researched aspect of management and policy studies in education. The textbook aims at helping educational leaders to involve and help communities participate in education through good governance. This text will be useful to university lecturers, students, those in charge of university management, educational leaders particularly principals; deputy principals; and heads of departments of schools, colleges, institutes of education, Ministry of Education officials, private entrepreneurs in education, officials of International Agencies and Non- governmental Organisations (NGOs) involved in education or practitioners interested in management and policy matters in schools.