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Saks, Judith Brody – Executive Educator, 1992
Spurred by the high turnover of urban school chiefs, school boards are trying to lock in outstanding incumbents by offering "golden handcuff" provisions such as trust funds, extended contracts, and supplemental salary and housing benefits. A sidebar describes a Jackson (Mississippi) superintendent's $100,000 escrow account as a…
Descriptors: Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits, Incentives
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Direct linkHill, Paul T. – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
In this essay, the author calls attention to a little-studied but critical aspect of school system reform: the nontransparent and sometimes illogical ways school districts allocate funds and personnel, especially teachers. Drawing on a series of studies produced by his Center for Reinventing Public Education, the author asserts that mayors who…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Educational Change, City Government
