Title: Battling corruption in America's public schools /
Authors: Segal, Lydia G., 1962-
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Public schools Corrupt practices Illinois Chicago Case studies.; Public schools Corrupt practices California Los Angeles Case studies.; Public schools Corrupt practices New York (State) New York Case studies.; Education, Urban Illinois Chicago Case studies.; Education, Urban California Los Angeles Case studies.; Education, Urban New York (State) New York Case studies.
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 : informal 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 -- Transforming entire districts into charter school districts -- The model of Edmonton, Canada -- Loosened top-down controls and trust.