School Boards in America A Flawed Exercise in Democracy 1st Edition by Gene Maeroff ISBN 978-0230109315 0230109314
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ISBN 10: 0230109314
ISBN 13: 978-0230109315
Author: Gene I. Maeroff
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 book lifts the veil of obscurity from school boards and makes readers think about the issues.
Table of contents:
1 A Cradle of Democracy
2 The School Board’s Impact on Student Learning
3 Expenditures: Huge and Uneven
4 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
5 A School Board’s Key Employee: The Superintendent
6 Teachers: The Heart of the Enterprise
7 The Mirage of Local Control
8 The Special Burden of Special Education
9 The Inner Workings of School Boards
10 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the Work of School Boards
11 Accepting Responsibility
12 Other Ways to Govern Schools
13 Do School Boards Have a Future?
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