Financing Schools for High Performance: Strategies for Improving the Use of Educational Resources

This essential new resource shows how educators can use existingdollars effectively and productively. The key lies in creatingfinance systems that give schools greater control over theirbudgets-allowing more resources to flow directly to teachers andstudents.

Allan Odden and Carolyn Busch look at inefficiencies in currenteducation spAnding, examine varied approaches to school-basedfinancing, and offer recommendations for restructuring financesystems to meet ambitious reform goals. In addit...