Theories of Education Budgeting: Lessons from the Management of Decline
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational Administration Quarterly
- Vol. 23 (1) , 7-40
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161x87023001003
Abstract
Existing rational and political theories of educational budgeting are reviewed and critiqued using comparativefield data on the management of declining resources in 10 urban school systems. A new rational theory is outlined that better explains events in these cities. It attempts to resurrect and restructure rational theory, incorporating relevant political, economic, and administrative concepts.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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