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School Business Administration develops a rationale for how school business administration functions and describes that role in current practice.

This text maintains that the purpose of school business administration is to contribute to instructional effectiveness by helping key decision-makers use financial resources to maximize the achievement of educational goals. It views school business administration as a collaborative enterprise and takes a positive, proactive approach to the contemporary problems and issues facing education today. Throughout, the text describes and applies new management concepts to school business administration and continually links concepts to practice using “real world” examples.

• Includes a description and analysis of problems and issues demanding leadership from school business administrators and depicts the social, economic and political context of school business administration. (Chs. 1 & 15)

• Facilitates understanding of key concepts through a developmental sequence of chapters and reflects reality by placing the role of the school business office in its proper perspective as a support activity and not as the main form of school organization.

• Uses site-based management to operationalize principal and teacher involvement in school business administration (Chs. 6 & 15).

• Presents chapters on management and information systems (Chs. 4 & 5) and a unique chapter on cash management (Ch. 12) with ways to enhance investment potential.

• Describes sources of revenue and fiscal decisions and how these impact school business administration (Ch. 3).

• Provides a unique focus on student achievement and iterates the learner as the main person to be served by all divisions of the school organization.

• Shows how school organizations can receive “more bang for the buck” by providing guidelines and good business practices for SBAs to follow (Ch. 6) and explains the integral importance of how SBA concepts relate to the superintendence team (Ch. 4).

• Substantially more emphasis on critical trends and issues in school business administration has been incorporated and outdated concepts have been removed throughout.

• Post 9/11 concerns related to issues such as safety, security and personnel that have been addressed by new federal, state and local policies and procedures have been incorporated throughout.

• No Child Left Behind requirements related to personnel selection, training and retention in order to maintain “Highly Qualified” staff have been integrated to keep abreast of information business managers must know (Ch. 8).

• Updated discussion of Risk Management, Maintenance and Operations related to trends such as available coverage and insufficient funding is integrated in Chapter 13.

• Updated material on technology and the Internet covers topics such as costs and other business considerations as well as security issues on and off campus, and the impact of computers on district offices and school sites (Chs. 5, 10 & 13).

All chapters conclude with “Summary,” “Suggested Activities,” “Suggested Readings,” and “Notes.”

Preface.


1. School Business Administration: Context, Function, Practice, and Process.

2. A Legislative and Judicial Context for School Business Administration.

3. The Revenue and Fiscal Context.

4. A Management Concept.

5. An Information Systems Context.

6. Strategic Planning and Budgeting.

7. Accounting, Auditing, and Reporting.

8. Personnel and Payroll Administration.

9. Purchasing and Distribution.

10. Maintenance and Operation.

11. Capital Asset Planning and Management.

12. Cash Management.

13. Risk Management and Insurance.

14. Auxiliary Services.

15. School Business Administration Perspectives.

Glossary.


Index.

Business Administration (Educational Administration & Leadership)

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The text was developed by a leading scholar in educational leadership as part of a series from one of the leading schools of education in the world. It has a strong basis in current research, and easy-to-use, intuitive features. It strikes an effective balance between the informational and the pedagogical. It covers trends (both historical and current) in educational leadership. The “Modern” approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary American school leaders. The case studies and interactive pedagogy make this a very practical text.

 

• Modern School Business Administration: A Planning Approach (Peabody College Education Leadership Series)
  Guthrie, Hart, Hack & Candoli
  © 2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 480 pages | Instock
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School Business Administration, Eighth Edition helps readers develop a rationale for how school business administration functions and understand that role in current practice.

This text maintains that the purpose of school business administration is to contribute to instructional effectiveness by helping key decision makers use financial resources wisely in support of educational goals. It views school business administration as a collaborative enterprise and takes a positive, proactive approach to the contemporary problems and issues facing education today.

Hallmark Features

• Includes analysis of problems and issues that require leadership from school business administrators and also depicts the social, economic, and political context in which administrators work.
• Facilitates understanding of key concepts through a developmental sequence of chapters and places the role of the school business office in its proper perspective as a support activity.
• Uses site-based management to illustrate principal and teacher involvement in school business administration.
• Presents chapters on management and information systems and a unique chapter on cash management with ways to enhance investment potential.
• Describes sources of revenue and fiscal decisions and how these impact school business administration in this new environment.
• Provides a unique focus on student achievement as the main goal that should be served by all divisions of the school organization.
• Shows how school organizations can receive more“bang for the buck” by providing guidelines and good business practices.
• Explains the integral importance of how SBA concepts relate to the superintendence team.

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• Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
  Allyn & Bacon
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