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UNINA9910465348003321 |
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Autore |
Adsit Tim L. <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Cutting costs and generating revenue in education [[electronic resource] /] / Tim L. Adsit and George Murdock |
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Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2011 |
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1-283-08480-5 |
9786613084804 |
1-60709-899-7 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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MurdockGeorge <1942-> |
AdsitTim L. <1948-> |
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Education - United States - Finance |
Education - United States - Cost control |
School management and organization - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Published in partnership with the Association of School Business Officials International." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Problem of Declining Funds for Schools; 2 Cost-Saving Tips for District and School-Level Administration; 3 Cost-Saving Tips for Instructional Services; 4 Cost-Saving Tips for Support Services; 5 Cost-Saving Tips for Community Colleges; 6 Generating Alternative Revenue Sources in Education; 7 A Very Brief Summary; Appendix A: AEPA School Purchasing Cooperative Members; Appendix B: A Survey Instrument: Cost-Cutting and Revenue-Generating Ideas to Use with Staff, Advisory Groups, and Community Members |
Appendix C: Submit Your Own Creative Ideas for Cutting Costs and Generating RevenuesReferences; Index; About the Authors |
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Much has been written about how to achieve new expectations in the realm of student achievement. Much has also been written about the need for accountability and the restructuring of how education dollars are spent. Unfortunately, most of the input regarding the need for 'belt-tightening' is unaccompanied by any tangible solutions or |
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suggestions and results only in hollow rhetoric or convenient political sound bytes. Tim Adsit and George Murdock's journey into meaningful avenues for cost-savings in public education is clearly an exception. In this book, readers will find many practical ideas f |
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UNINA9910465612403321 |
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Illiberal practices : territorial variance within large federal democracies / / edited by Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Federal government |
Subnational governments |
Representative government and representation |
Central-local government relations |
Democracy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Setting the comparative agenda : territorially uneven democratization -- Processes in large federations / Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead -- Federalism and subnational democratization in the United States : the South in the 19th and 20th centuries / Edward L. Gibson and Desmond King -- Subnational democratization in India : the role of colonial competition and central intervention / Maya Tudor and Adam Ziegfeld -- Federal intervention and subnational democratization in Argentina : a comparative perspective / Jacqueline Behrend -- The dimensions of democratic and hybrid subnational regimes : evidence from an expert survey in Argentina / Carlos Gervasoni -- Subnational |
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hybrid regimes and democratization in Brazil : why party nationalization matters / Andre Borges -- The rise and fall of illiberal politics in the Brazilian state of Bahia / Celina Souza -- Social heterogeneity, political mediation, and subnational illiberalism : Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico / Julian Durazo Herrmann -- Subnational democratization and electoral authoritarianism in Russia : from subnational regime diversity to unitary authoritarianism / Inga A-L. Saikkonen -- Mapping the cases : uneven processes and multiple pathways / Laurence Whitehead and Jacqueline Behrend. |
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