Abstract

The need inspire quality consciousness in school operators and managers for the attainment of total quqlity assurance in schools, create a turn around in educational effectiveness and achievement, gave birth to the concept of community participation in school management (Abu-Duhou,1999). School based management (SBM) became the main theme for restructuring of public schools and assurance of educational quality in many parts of the world. This study set out to find out the extent to which Nigerian public schools have implemented the SBM, the type of SBMC that is in place and the effect of SBM on the achievement of quality assurance in schools.