This textbook of 24 chapters provides administrators and students with information on the role, activities, and responsibilities of the school business administrator. The independently authored chapters are titled as follows: (1) "Introduction to School Business Management" (F. Mike Miles); (2) "Legal Context of the Public School District" (Paul W. Thurston); (3) "Theories of Modern Management" (W. Hal Knight); (4) "Taxation for Education" (Thomas H. Jones); (5) "Educational Accounting Procedures" (Sam B. Tidwell); (6) "Educational Budget Preparation: Fiscal and Political Considerations" (Ellen Kehoe); (7) "Quantitative Decision Making" (Grover H. Baldwin); (8) "Management Information Systems in Educational Organizations" (Frederick L. Dembowski); (9) "School District Financial Management and Banking" (Frederick L. Dembowski and Robert D. Davey); (10) "Planning and the School Business Office" (A. P. Johnston and Kenneth Hood); (11) "The Personnel Function: Practitioners, Practices and Participants" (Donald L. Robson); (12) "Legal and Managerial Aspects of Collective Negotiations" (Thomas N. Jones and Grover H. Baldwin); (13) "Risk Management" (L. Nathan Randal); (14) "Foodservices at School" (Dorothy Van Egmond-Pannell); (15) "Public School Transportation: State Aid and Current Issues" (Patricia Anthony and Deborah Inman); (16) "School Desegregation and Student Busing" (Richard A. King); (17) "Legal Liabilities of Administrators" (Julie Underwood); (18) "School District Purchasing" (Joseph L. Natale); (19) "Fiscal Equity Challenges" (Richard G. Salmon, Mary Jane Connelly, and M. David Alexander); (20) "Reduction in Force" (R. Craig Wood); (21) "Capital Outlay and Bonding" (R. Craig Wood); (22) "School Closings" (R. Craig Wood and Wayne M. Worner); (23) "Facility Planning and Management" (Glen I. Earthman); and (24) "The Political Economy of Education Finance: Legacies of Largess Lumbering toward an Uncertain Future" (Maureen W. McClure). Each chapter provides endnotes citing the reference sources used. The book also contains a preface by the executive editor, brief profiles of the editor and the authors, and a three-part index to personal names, subjects, and court cases referred to in the text. (PGD)