This essential resource provides a roadmap for redirecting school funds in ways that will dramatically improve student performance. Lead author Allan Odden3⁄4

This updated text provides a clear discussion of how research in school finance, resource allocation and use for higher performance, site-based management of sc

A how-to manual for achieving excellence despite budget cuts This book offers a comprehensive framework to enhance student achievement in good times and in bad.

This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a

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