Out of every dollar spent for the city's 1,093,071 public school students last year, only 8.2percentt was incurred for "system-wide obligations" or for central administration.
He said: "There are those who say we should turn our backs on the world and on our wider obligations, that we should cut ourselves off from influential organisations in the belief that we can go it alone.
There is always a balance to be struck in any community, between its right to order its own identity and a wider obligation to welcome strangers, particularly refugees.
Carroll's model, on the other hand, focuses on obeying the law, suggesting that companies have more than the wider "obligation to do what is right, just and fair" and do indeed have legal responsibilities to "obey the law".
"We have wide statutory obligations to ensure the safety of our staff, congregation, visitors and pilgrims and final checks will be made tomorrow.
It would obviously need to do so in a manner that was consistent with its wider regulatory obligations".
Freed from the struggle for food and shelter, unconstrained by wider social obligations or inherited moral frameworks, people such as these in modern societies, says Ballard, are able to explore their own desires and obsessions to an unprecedented degree.
This is Manchester Islamic high school for girls, one of the 107 independent Muslim schools criticised last week by the chief inspector of schools, David Bell, for educating pupils "with little appreciation of their wider responsibilities and obligations to British society".
"I worry that many young people are being educated in faith-based schools, with little appreciation of their wider responsibilities and obligations to British society," he said in a speech this week that was swiftly denounced by Muslim leaders.The handful of state-funded Muslim schools are not the worry: results tables show them doing well.
We'll recover from this recession, but it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interest to the wider set of obligations we have towards each other - that's when we succeed; that's when we prosper.
"But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other thats when we succeed".
