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Schools as Business By Kelly Jean Sullivan

  <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1763189992875486"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> Our schools are businesses.  Education is now a service provider that use teachers to teach skills, and school districts need to run them this way to survive (Evans2020).Can a school district be run like a business? Let's define a business. Businesses are geared to provide a product or service to their customers.  A school district operates schools that provide a student who is the customer and education, the service. A school district must hire employees. And keep the budget balanced. The school district must deal with parent or customer concerns. The school district must sell its product and services, aka quality education. A school district must provide management and leadership.  The parents pay taxes in exchange for a student's seat in the school to learn. The superintendents are the CEOs