Describes the efforts of the Seattle Schools Public, under the control of Joseph Olchefske, to replace the centralized budget process with the school district-level budgets. Decentralised Olchefske, referred to locally as the freedom agenda, allocated funding to schools based on the number of students and tried to give the principles of increased flexibility in resource management, recruitment and education programs. The main goal of the program was to equip the freedom principals and their leadership teams with the resources and authority they need to carry out educational programs to the individual needs of the student. Focusing essentially depends on the interaction of the decentralization plan Olchefske with the incentives and constraints that accompany public funding. "Hide
by Stig Leschly Source: Harvard Business School 16 pages. Publication Date: September 23, 2002. Prod. #: 803037-PDF-ENG
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