School Boards in America
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School Boards in America

A Flawed Exercise in Democracy

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School Boards in America

A Flawed Exercise in Democracy

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School boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril. This booklifts the veil of obscurity from school boards and makes readers think about theissues.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
9780230117495
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Educational Policy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedications
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 A Cradle of Democracy
  8. 2 The School Board’s Impact on Student Learning
  9. 3 Expenditures: Huge and Uneven
  10. 4 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  11. 5 A School Board’s Key Employee: The Superintendent
  12. 6 Teachers: The Heart of the Enterprise
  13. 7 The Mirage of Local Control
  14. 8 The Special Burden of Special Education
  15. 9 The Inner Workings of School Boards
  16. 10 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the Work of School Boards
  17. 11 Accepting Responsibility
  18. 12 Other Ways to Govern Schools
  19. 13 Do School Boards Have a Future?
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index