Kedir, Hussein(PhDBefekadu, Gemechis2021-10-292023-11-052021-10-292023-11-052021-08http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28387The general objective of this study was to assess the Implementation of SIP in teaching and learning process, school leadership and management, school environment and relation among parents at primary and secondary schools. In addition, the study aims in identifying t h e challenges encountered in implementing the SIP. A mixed approach with purposive and simple random sampling techniques was used to select teachers and students from primary and secondary schools of East Wollega in oromia region. The principal objectives such as to examine SIP status, identify its impacts and assessing the improvements made by the program evaluated carefully. The surveyed data were analyzed using SPSS. The findings of the study reveal that relatively encouraging achievements have been made at the school environment and community involvement domains were found to be very low; The overall existing school environment in the sampled schools is not to the required level; the over existing school leadership and management in the school is not encouraging. Furthermore, lack of reward for those who performed well it, lack of awareness, and practical involvement of the community lack of awareness among students, and teachers, insufficient budget, lack of effective leadership were identified as the major challenges in implementing SIP. The findings also indicated that there are no integrated effort of all stakeholders in the implementation process .This indicates that the school improvement program has become a well-articulated program in the document, but it is not as fruitful as it was expected on the ground. In its third year implementation stage and significant land marks, improvements were not observed so far in all domains, from the four domains the most discouraging being the school environment and the community involvement domains.enSchool; Implementation; Community; and ImprovementThesis