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Trautenberg, David Herbert – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this autoethnography, I examine the challenges I faced as a private-to-public-sector novice CFO entering a resource-constrained 41-thousand-student K-12 urban school district in Colorado. This study chronicles how I deliberately slowed down my interactions within a complex adaptive system (CAS) through ethnographic interviewing to identify the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
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Baker, Bruce; Miron, Gary – National Education Policy Center, 2015
This research brief details some of the prominent ways that individuals, companies, and organizations secure financial gain and generate profit by controlling and running charter schools. To illustrate how charter school policy functions to promote privatization and profiteering, the authors explore differences between charter schools and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Policy, Privatization, Ethics
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Balzer, Wayne E. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
This case, inspired by a real school district scenario, was developed for use in a graduate-level course in school finance. James Spencer had just been selected as the new superintendent of a low-income, 400-student, rural school district in need of many capital improvements. The previous superintendent had refused to hold a bond election because…
Descriptors: School Districts, Vignettes, Graduate Study, Graduate Students
Wood, R. Craig, Ed. – 1986
This textbook of 24 chapters provides administrators and students with information on the role, activities, and responsibilities of the school business administrator. The independently authored chapters are titled as follows: (1) "Introduction to School Business Management" (F. Mike Miles); (2) "Legal Context of the Public School District" (Paul…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Bond Issues, Budgeting