Principles of School Business Management
- ISBN-10
- 0910170460
- ISBN-13
- 9780910170468
- Category
- Public schools
- Pages
- 675
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986-01-01
- Publisher
- Assn of School Business
- Author
- R. Craig Wood
Description
This textbook of 24 chapters provides administrators and students with information on the role, activities, and responsibilities of the school business administrator. The independently authored chapters are titled as follows: (1) "Introduction to School Business Management" (F. Mike Miles); (2) "Legal Context of the Public School District" (Paul W. Thurston); (3) "Theories of Modern Management" (W. Hal Knight); (4) "Taxation for Education" (Thomas H. Jones); (5) "Educational Accounting Procedures" (Sam B. Tidwell); (6) "Educational Budget Preparation: Fiscal and Political Considerations" (Ellen Kehoe); (7) "Quantitative Decision Making" (Grover H. Baldwin); (8) "Management Information Systems in Educational Organizations" (Frederick L. Dembowski); (9) "School District Financial Management and Banking" (Frederick L. Dembowski and Robert D. Davey); (10) "Planning and the School Business Office" (A. P. Johnston and Kenneth Hood); (11) "The Personnel Function: Practitioners, Practices and Participants" (Donald L. Robson); (12) "Legal and Managerial Aspects of Collective Negotiations" (Thomas N. Jones and Grover H. Baldwin); (13) "Risk Management" (L. Nathan Randal); (14) "Foodservices at School" (Dorothy Van Egmond-Pannell); (15) "Public School Transportation: State Aid and Current Issues" (Patricia Anthony and Deborah Inman); (16) "School Desegregation and Student Busing" (Richard A. King); (17) "Legal Liabilities of Administrators" (Julie Underwood); (18) "School District Purchasing" (Joseph L. Natale); (19) "Fiscal Equity Challenges" (Richard G. Salmon, Mary Jane Connelly, and M. David Alexander); (20) "Reduction in Force" (R. Craig Wood); (21) "Capital Outlay and Bonding" (R. Craig Wood); (22) "School Closings" (R. Craig Wood and Wayne M. Worner); (23) "Facility Planning and Management" (Glen I. Earthman); and (24) "The Political Economy of Education Finance: Legacies of Largess Lumbering toward an Uncertain Future" (Maureen W. McClure). Each chapter provides endnotes citing the reference sources used. The book also contains a preface by the executive editor, brief profiles of the editor and the authors, and a three-part index to personal names, subjects, and court cases referred to in the text. (PGD)
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