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Follow the money : how foundation dollars change public school politics / Sarah Reckhow.
LIBRA LB2825 .R394 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reckhow, Sarah.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in postwar American political development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public schools--United States--Finance.
- Public schools.
- United States.
- Finance.
- Public schools--Finance.
- Privatization in education--United States.
- Privatization in education.
- Physical Description:
- x, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the boardroom progressives
- Accountability, markets, and the philanthropic agenda
- Following the money from foundations to urban school districts
- From Annenberg to Gates
- A shadow bureaucracy
- Deliberative decentralization
- Conclusions and implications
- Appendix A: top 15 grant-makers to K-12 education, 2000 and 2005
- Appendix B: grant recipient categories
- Appendix C: explanation of data
- Appendix D: surveys.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199937738
- 0199937737
- OCLC:
- 794555853
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