Abstract: In the past 40 years,non local cooperative education has been developing and transforming.From the perspective of resource dependence theory,the cooperative school districts in different places are faced with the soft academic resources and environment system provided by the school headquarters and the funds provided by the local government.Under the two different resource environment systems,the cooperative school districts in different places are facing structural resource dilemma,mainly including insufficient funding resources,limited stock and increment of academic resources.Therefore,in the dilemma of resource dependence,the non local cooperative school running campus has to constantly seek transformation,and obtain the continuous resource support from the school headquarters and local government through the ways of innovating relationship,expanding scale,highlighting characteristics,strengthening cooperation,and improving governance,so as to promote the realization of the transformation goal.Based on the theory of resource dependence,this paper analyzes the factors and mechanisms that affect the development and transformation of the cooperative school running.It is believed that the resource dependence provided by both the school and the local government determines the development and transformation of the cooperative campus.

Key words: non local cooperative school district, resource dependence, transformation path