School Business Administration : A Planning Approach

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 providingguidelines and good business practices. Explains the integral importance of how SBA concepts relate to the superintendence team. Visit our Educational Leadership Supersite at ablongman.com/edleadership for additional leadership resources!

Key Benefit: School business administration in schools is seldom understood and even less appreciated. Instructional decisions often have business implications and, in turn, business decisions have instructional implications. Thus, school business administrators and instructional and support personnel must collaborate in both kinds of decisions. A classic in the field, previous editions of this book have been an invaluable resources to readers.Key Topics: This book develops a rationale for the function of school business administration and describes the concepts and practices which implement that function. The authors describe the social, economic, and political context of school business administration and constantly link concepts to practices.Market: School administrators and economists.