Download or read book Coping with Education Budget Cuts written by Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doing More with Less written by Howard Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budget cuts are common in education, but nothing like the scale that schools have seen in the last two years. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls the current situation "the New Normal," meaning that schools will see increasing demands for performance in a climate of declining resources. Most of the literature suggests that schools cannot simply cut their way out of this crisis--that a fundamental shift in the way education is delivered is needed to assure effective learning for America's students. Everything must be on the table--the way we use technology, time, space, instructional materials, and personnel. Protecting learning opportunities for children must be the highest priority, but teachers and administrators must attend to their own personal well-being while making these very difficult decisions as well. It is especially important that the voices of those children and families most in need be heard in all of the decision-making processes as well. (Contains 6 online resources.).
Download or read book Music Education in Crisis written by Joseph T. Pergola & George Ober and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 30 years of combined experience in educational leadership, Joe Pergola and George Ober have served as school district program directors and department chairmen. As active members of many professional education associations, they both have served in numerous leadership positions. During their tenure as education leaders, they had the responsibility of dealing with financial shortfalls, failed budgets and educational reform. Both Mr. Pergola and Mr. Ober are published authors of numerous articles and books on various educational topics. Currently, Mr.Pergola serves as Director of Development for the National Education Service Company while Mr. Ober continues to teach and serve in various educational leadership roles.
Download or read book Strained Schools Face Bleak Future written by Nancy Kober and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many school districts had to cope with shrinking budgets this past school year, but the effects of these cuts were cushioned to some extent by the availability of federal economic stimulus money. In 2009 and 2010, school districts received about $80 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). These funds were intended to stave off teacher layoffs, stabilize declining state and local education budgets, and blunt other negative effects of the economic downturn for schools. In the summer of 2010, districts received an additional $10 billion through the Education Jobs legislation to save or create education jobs for school year 2010-11. Now that the ARRA and Education Jobs funds are nearly depleted, what do school districts expect their budgets to look like for school year 2011-12? This report by the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an independent non-profit organization, describes the fiscal condition of school districts for school year 2010-11 and the anticipated fiscal condition for school year 2011-12, the extent to which ARRA and Education Jobs funds are making up for funding shortfalls, and the types of cuts being made to balance district budgets. The authors' data were drawn from responses to a survey administered to a nationally representative sample of school districts in the winter and spring of 2011. This is the second CEP report on the financial status of school districts and their implementation of ARRA; the first was released in July 2010. Two other CEP reports have addressed state fiscal conditions and state ARRA implementation. Seven key findings are evident from the district survey data: (1) A grim situation is expected to worsen in the coming school year; (2) Districts are compensating by cutting jobs; (3) No type of district appears to be immune from budget reductions or staff cuts; (4) Funding cuts are hampering progress on school reform; (5) Most districts have reached the dreaded "funding cliff" with no ARRA funds left to help ease funding shortfalls in school year 2011-12; (6) Most of the districts that received extra funds through ARRA for the federal Title I and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs used at least some of these funds to save or create teaching or other staff jobs; and (7) Districts believe they are better off for having received ARRA and Education Jobs funding. (Contains 8 tables, 5 figures and 3 footnotes.).
Download or read book Dealing with Budget Cuts Research Brief written by Ronald Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every school district in the country is dealing with the need to reduce their budget. The process used to make those decisions varies from state to state but almost always includes a combination of short and long-term approaches. In many school districts the emphasis is on reducing individual budget line items and not filling vacant positions. In others, the approach is to look more wholly at the mission and vision of the district and align budget expenditures with that mission and vision. Invariably, interest groups seek to minimize reductions to their favored programs by lobbying the superintendent and Board of Education. Confounding the issue is the continuing need to reduce expenditures. Most school districts have repeatedly made reductions only to find they need to plan for further budget cuts. (Contains 8 resources.).
Download or read book What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets written by Karen D. Olsen and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a strategy-builder chart for reinvesting and reallocating dollars, this unique resource applies brain research to the budgeting process to make decision making more objective.
Download or read book Coping with Educational Crises written by Walter S. Polka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with Educational Crises: Approaches from School Leaders Who Did It provides readers with perspectives and research-based strategies regarding the leadership approaches employed by school district administrators at all levels of organizational responsibility including superintendents of schools; assistant superintendents; program directors and coordinators; principals; assistant principals; and teacher leaders to confront unexpected major crises in school operations such as that created by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This book consists of eight chapters written by practicing administrators, leadership researchers, and experienced educators who present their analyses and insights about managing the people, things, and ideas of educational organizations during crisis situations. They articulate various approaches that they and other educational leaders employed to abate the deleterious impact of crises on their respective organizations. Coping with Educational Crises also provides recommendations to current and future school leaders who may face similar crises during their careers. Additionally, the editors and contributing authors offer sage advice to educational policymakers, school administrators, parents, and community leaders to recognize the collateral opportunities associated with any crisis including reforms to the pre-crisis traditional educational system since some of its key foundations, procedures, and expectations may have been significantly changed forever.
Download or read book Coping with Crisis written by Unesco and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the findings of a series of UNESCO/ILO studies on the effects of austerity and public-spending cuts worldwide on education and training. The first section reports on the case studies. Three analytical chapters follow: the first examines policies, their impact and evaluation; the second considers the issues of participation and accountability; and the third looks at how education and training budgets are cut and the areas most sheltered from budget cuts. The book reflects an international and collaborative approach to the problem of human resource development and training.
Download or read book Field hearings on the impact of federal education budget cuts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Getting the Most Bang for the Education Buck written by Frederick M. Hess and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might school funds be spent more effectively in today’s uncertain environment? This up-to-date volume explores a range of ideas to help schools and districts better manage their resources, including: how to rethink staffing and management to get more value for employee compensation; how policymakers might revisit pension arrangements in ways that control costs while putting more teacher compensation in the form of take-home pay; how educators and policymakers can leverage technology as a performance-enhancer and not just a cost-cutting opportunity; and how districts might frame spending options differently in order to more properly assess the needs and preferences of students and families. As American education enters the next decade of challenges, including shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Getting the Most Bang From the Education Buck will be a valuable guide for how to spend dollars wisely and well. Contributors: Chad Aldeman, Bryan Hassel, Emily Hassel, Matthew Ladner, Nathan Levenson, Michael Q. McShane, Scott Milam, Karen Hawley Miles, Katie Morrison-Reed, Marguerite Roza, Carrie Stewart, and Adam Tyner. “Finally, a book that gets beyond the academic debate about whether money matters in education (spoiler alert: It does) to offer suggestions for how to make scarce education dollars matter more. This book offers practical solutions to real-world problems like outdated staffing models, declining enrollments, and increasing special education costs, along with frameworks for tackling other tough resource-allocation challenges.” —Carrie Conaway, senior lecturer on education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Download or read book Many Children Left Behind written by Deborah Meier and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.
Download or read book Losing Ground written by New York City. Comptroller. Office of Policy Management and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Budget Cuts in Educational Programs written by Robert Pressman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soliciting Student Narrative Regarding Educational Budget Cuts written by Mariah Kornbluh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cutting Costs and Generating Revenues in Education written by Tim L. Adsit and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At no time in the history of public education has there been such a dramatic discrepancy between accelerated standards and expectations and adequate funding for our schools. Much has been written about how to achieve new expectations in the realm of student achievement. Much has also been written about the need for accountability and the restructuring of how education dollars are spent. Unfortunately, most of the input regarding the need for 'belt-tightening' is unaccompanied by any tangible solutions or suggestions and results only in hollow rhetoric or convenient political sound bytes. Tim Adsit and George Murdock's journey into meaningful avenues for cost-savings in public education is clearly an exception. In this book, readers will find many practical ideas for saving money, which can be readily implemented.
Download or read book The Everything New Teacher Book written by Melissa Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a great teacher is more than lesson plans and seating charts. In this revised and expanded new edition of the classic bestseller, you learn what it takes to be the very best educator you can be, starting from day one in your new classroom! Filled with real-world life lessons from experienced teachers as well as practical tips and techniques, you'll gain the skill and confidence you need to create a successful learning environment for you and your students, including how to: Organize a classroom Create engaging lesson plans Set ground rules and use proper behavior management Deal with prejudice, controversy, and violence Work with colleagues and navigate the chain of command Incorporate mandatory test preparation within the curriculum Implement the latest educational theories In this book, veteran teacher Melissa Kelly provides you with the confidence you'll need to step into class and teach right from the start.
Download or read book How to Cut Your School Budget and Improve Your Program written by Karen D. Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
