Modern School Business Administration: A Planning Approach (Peabody College Education Leadership Series), 1st edition

Published by Pearson (October 10, 2007) © 2008

  • James W. Guthrie
  • Christina C. Hart
  • John Ray
  • I Carl Candoli University of Texas
  • Walter G. Hack

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Features:

  • Authored by expert scholars as part of a cohesive series developed at one of the leading schools of education in the world. This series will provide readers with a succinct and practical analysis of current educational leadership topics.
  • Case study approach - Each section of the text opens with case studies, each demonstrating real issues faced by educational administrators today. The authors refer back to these case studies throughout the section.
  • ELCC standards integration - Standards are highlighted in each section and chapter to demonstrate how tightly the content is correlated to the standards.
  • Practical end-of-chapter material - Chapters close with several pages of practical material including class activities, discussion questions, and case studies revisited.
  • An instructor’s manual with resources and test items is available online to adopters by contacting your local representative.

New to this Edition:

  • Case Study Approach. The text now opens with a chapter containing six newly written, business-related case studies to which reference is made in subsequent chapters throughout the text.
  • Two Entirely New Chapters have been added to the beginning of the text to provide a more modern context: a totally new chapter on capital construction and a totally new chapter on the federal government.
  • Updated Citations and References have been added.
  • Contemporary School Business Developments feature has been added where appropriate, linked directly to adjacent text material.

Table of Contents:

 

Series Preface

Preface

 

Chapter One: School Business Administration Case Studies

Chapter Two: The Rapidly Evolving World and the Problems it Presents for School Business Administration

Chapter Three: What School Business Officials Do

Chapter Four: Planning

Chapter Five: A Legal and Regulatory Context for School Business Administration

Chapter Six: Education Revenues: Magnitude, Sources, and Characteristics

Chapter Seven: Distributing State Education Funds

Chapter Eight: Managing Capital Projects and Fiscal Resources

Chapter Nine: Budgeting

Chapter Ten: Federal Governance and Education Finance

Chapter Eleven: Accounting, Auditing, and Reporting 

Chapter Twelve: Managing Money

Chapter Thirteen: Managing Personnel

Chapter Fourteen: Managing Facilities

Chapter Fifteen: Managing Materials

Chapter Sixteen: Managing Risks

Chapter Seventeen: Managing Auxiliary Services

Chapter Eighteen: Managing Information

 

Glossary

Index

 

 

 

           

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