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Developments in School Finance 1996
Principles and Practices in Resource Allocation to Schools under Conditions of Radical Decentralization

Brian J. Caldwell

University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia


Footnotes

  1. A Labor Government was elected on May 1, 1997 with a manifesto that assures the future of this approach to resource allocation.  [Back]

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