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Baker, Keith – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Federal education programs increase costs because they attach fewer strings to funds than state or local grants, and this is likely to lead to administrative empire-building. Bureaucracy tends pathologically as it grows to generate more work for itself independent of true administrative needs. Some policy implications are drawn. (MJL)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Problems, Block Grants, Bureaucracy
