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• catalog abstract ""This book exposes how embedded waste and fraud deplete classroom resources, block initiative, and distort educational priorities and explains how to remedy the problem. Drawing on extensive interviews and investigative research in America's three largest districts. New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Segal argues that the problem is not usually bad people, but a bad system that focuses on process at the expense of results. She shows how regulations that were established to curb waste and fraud provide perverse incentives. Districts following rules designed to save every penny spend thousands of dollars to hunt down checks for amounts as small as twenty-five dollars. To fix leaky toilets, caring principals may have to pay workers under the table because submitting a works order through the central office, with its many fraud checks, could take years, Meanwhile, those who pilfer from classrooms may get away because the pyramidal structure of large districts makes schools inherently difficult to oversee." "Drawing on initiatives in successful districts, Segal offers pragmatic solutions and a detailed blueprint for reform. She calls for radically restructuring districts, empowering principles, and establishing new, less stifling forms of accountability that put a premium on performance."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13059110.
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""Drawing on initiatives in successful districts, Segal offers pragmatic solutions and a detailed blueprint for reform. She calls for radically restructuring districts, empowering principles, and establishing new, less stifling forms of accountability that put a premium on performance."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""This book exposes how embedded waste and fraud deplete classroom resources, block initiative, and distort educational priorities and explains how to remedy the problem. Drawing on extensive interviews and investigative research in America's three largest districts. New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Segal argues that the problem is not usually bad people, but a bad system that focuses on process at the expense of results.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.".
• catalog description "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 : information 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 -- Restructuring school districts to push power downward -- The model of Edmonton, Canada -- Loosened top-down controls and trust.".
• catalog description "She shows how regulations that were established to curb waste and fraud provide perverse incentives. Districts following rules designed to save every penny spend thousands of dollars to hunt down checks for amounts as small as twenty-five dollars.".
• catalog description "To fix leaky toilets, caring principals may have to pay workers under the table because submitting a works order through the central office, with its many fraud checks, could take years, Meanwhile, those who pilfer from classrooms may get away because the pyramidal structure of large districts makes schools inherently difficult to oversee."".
• catalog extent "xxv, 257 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Battling corruption in America's public schools.".
• catalog identifier "1555535844 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Battling corruption in America's public schools.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Northeastern University Press,".
• catalog relation "Battling corruption in America's public schools.".
• catalog spatial "California Los Angeles".
• catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago".
• catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
• catalog subject "371.01/0977/11 21".
• catalog subject "Education, Urban California Los Angeles Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Education, Urban Illinois Chicago Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Education, Urban New York (State) New York Case studies.".
• catalog subject "LC5133.C4 S44 2004".
• catalog subject "Public schools Corrupt practices California Los Angeles Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Public schools Corrupt practices Illinois Chicago Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Public schools Corrupt practices New York (State) New York Case studies.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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 : information 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 -- Restructuring school districts to push power downward -- The model of Edmonton, Canada -- Loosened top-down controls and trust.".
• catalog title "Battling corruption in America's public schools / Lydia G. Segal ; with a foreword by James B. Jacobs.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".