One of the principal issues facing educators is whether school management can manage its resources efficiently to achieve results through broad-based accountability procedures such as performance or incentive contracts, in light of possible constraints such as teacher tenure. In this speech, the author suggests some propositions related to education in the 70's, discusses tenure and its ramifications from a management point of view in light of these propositions, and discusses several accountability models and procedures that exist or might be implemented in the near future. (Author/JF)