Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.
Contents
Public education as big business -- Charting corruption, waste, and abuse -- Where the money goes -- The toll on education -- The quest for accountability -- The centralization mess -- Toward a theory of school waste and fraud -- Watching the pennies but missing the millions -- The cost of managerial paralysis -- Creative noncompliance : information power networks -- When anticorruption machinery breeds corruption -- Lessons from local political school control -- Lessons from bureaucratic autonomy -- Lessons from resistance to reform -- Establishing independent inspectors general -- Removing the dominant coalition -- Restructuring school districts to push power downward -- The model of Edmonton, Canada -- Loosened top-down controls and trust.
