Download or read book Making Sense of School Finance written by Clinton Born and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of School Finance: A Practical State-by-State Approach thoroughly and clearly describes complex school finance concepts regarding local, state, and federal revenue along with authentic accounting processes in a straightforward manner for public, nonpublic, and charter school leaders. This logically organized resource delivers content on a specific state basis in succinct, easy-to-follow chapters that uniquely applies to each reader’s actual situation and location. Figures for each state funding model with real allocations, by example, illustrate respective funding model formulas, and the numerous tables in the text differentiate substance by jurisdiction (states and the District of Columbia). Practical subject matter to increase and acquire additional funding in this book that includes private and public grant application writing is vital reading for aspiring and practicing school officials. Above all, this text expands the reader’s comprehension of school finance topics beyond knowledge acquisition into knowhow applications through genuine, end-of-chapter projects and scenarios for discussion with colleagues. Applying the principles from this book remains an absolute necessity to position your school and district for a strong financial future.
Download or read book Making Sense of School Budgets written by Susan Perkins Weston and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of School Budgets written by Susan Perkins Weston and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of School Budgets written by Suan P. Weston and published by . This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Funding for All written by Jennifer Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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: "Karen Olsen has put budget topics into perspective so that school administrators can make decisions based on what is best for children, not what is easiest and most efficient for adults. This book is a powerful guide in helping our principals see through the fog of mandates, policies, and red tape and get to the priority of students!" —Terri Patterson, Director of Elementary Education Waco Independent School District, TX "This book boldly asserts that brain research should be applied wherever human brains are working. Not only can and should brain research inform how and what we teach in the classroom, it should be brought to bear in boardrooms and the school budgeting process as well." —Linda Jordan, Associate Professor Hope College Make objective budget-cutting decisions that will truly impact student achievement! In tough economic environments, budget cutting is a daunting but necessary task for many school administrators. Karen D. Olsen takes an exciting, unique approach by applying brain research to budgeting. Now educators can make the decision-making process more objective by using analytical thinking in school budgeting rather than responding to emotion, tradition, or outside influences. Providing a strategy-builder chart, this book Offers action items for putting the strategies into practice Helps leaders determine where money should be reinvested or reallocated Provides specific tips for working within a group decision-making setting Includes more than 30 analytical charts to aid in gathering needed information What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets offers principals and district leaders a methodical process for taking subjectivity out of the budgeting process.
Download or read book Financing Schools and Educational Programs written by Al Ramirez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Ramirez writes on the subject of how the public schools in the United States are financed and how other funds are raised for educational programs in elementary and secondary schools. A context for public school finance is provided throughout the volume by grounding each topic in historical, policy, political, and common practice, so the work spans both the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject matter. The text is written primarily for graduate students in programs for education leadership, administration, policy studies, public administration, public finance and public accounting. The content will also serve as a resource for practitioners and education policy leaders, e.g., school board members, foundation program officers, legislators, and policy analysts at the local, state and national levels. Each chapter is structured so as to enhance the book's value to pre-service students preparing for entry-level school administration positions as well as candidates for advanced degrees who need more research based theoretical content on school finance. The author recognizes that each state has its own unique funding approach and guides readers to state resources that supplement the books content.
Download or read book Education Research Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of School Choice written by Joel A. Windle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in producing educational inequalities.
Download or read book Making Sense of Problems in Primary Headship written by Gerald Dunning and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By using evidence from interviews with primary headteachers, this book highlights the most serious problems experienced by primary heads. The management of school finance and premises and relationships with a range of other people involved in the life and work of the school are shown to be recurring historical issues in primary headship.
Download or read book A Primer on School Budgeting written by Robert N. Kratz and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the prospect of preparing your school district's budget seem daunting? Beginning school administrators, often having only one theoretical course on the subject under their belt, see the budget development process as a nightmare. New adminstratiors, teachers, and board members who have little experience with budgeting are justifiably concerned by the prospect of their involvement in budgeting. This book leads the reader through all stages of the process, from the theoretical underpinnings (history, types of budgets, etc.) and practical considerations (revenue planning, budget calendar, etc.) through to the adoption of the budget and its implementation. Includes sample budgets and tips for administration of a budget once it is in place.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book A Better Way to Budget written by Nathan Levenson and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Better Way to Budget provides practical, innovative advice on how to overcome the political and social pushback that often prevents district and school leaders from shifting scarce resources to the most student-centered uses. Nathan Levenson shows how school leaders can uncover the sources of potential conflicts and create a budgeting process that normalizes change, minimizes pushback, and builds public buy-in for needed reforms. A Better Way to Budget: focuses on a strategic and process-oriented approach that anticipates roadblocks and challenges; introduces eight effective strategies for shifting funds and winning support; provides real-life examples of mistakes and successes; and includes joint fact-finding, simulations, and other exercises to help stakeholders agree on goals and identify the budgetary changes needed to reach those objectives. Filled with advice gathered over decades of work in schools, A Better Way to Budget provides timely insights and tools for leaders who are exploring ways to make their districts more inclusive and student-centered.
Download or read book Making Dollars and Sense of School level Fiscal Decision Making written by Lena M. Batt and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in the school finance field have turned their attention from whether resources matter to how resources matter. Answering this question requires examining resources and budgeting at the school-level, a topic that has been historically overlooked in scholarship. This three-study and multiple-methods dissertation answers how school leaders conceptualize, garner, and allocate resources by focusing both on budget and resource decisions. The first quantitative study, using New York City public school data, employs latent profile analysis to identify three classes of schools based on expenditure patterns in their budgets. Using descriptive statistics and logistic regression, I found that budget decisions are driven primarily by school level, although the elementary schools make different choices based on student needs. Inequities in teacher sorting persist, especially in elementary schools. Numerical data can provide insight into what percentage of the budget was spent on particular resources across the largest district in the nation, such as in the first study, but we still do not know why. Using in-depth interviewing, I explored how and why school leaders make budget and resource decisions in studies two and three, which were based in two mid-sized, Midwestern districts. In the second study, I investigated school leader budget decision making and how principals met their resource needs beyond the district allocation. Consistent with previous research, I found that the budget is primarily the principals' task and the level of transparency about the budget is determined by principal beliefs and staff expectations. When the budget did not meet the needs of the school, the principals used social skill, inducing others to cooperate by creating a shared identity, to garner resources from the district, families, and community. The amount of time spent on fundraising was largely determined by the school's socioeconomic context. The third study went beyond the budget to understand school leaders' sensemaking about allocating resources to shape their desired instructional climate. Using an expanded definition of resources, I found that school leaders have far more control over resources than researchers and policymakers typically assume. The school level plays an important role in equity and how resources matter.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Papers in School Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making sense of Brexit written by Seidler, Victor and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will. Seidler argues that we need new political imaginations across class, race, religion, gender and sexuality to engage in issues about the scale and acceleration of urban change and the time people need to adjust to new realities. He suggests we need to listen to people's concerns not only about the impact of immigration and globalisation on their lives but also about the injustice of a capitalist economy that makes them pay through austerity and cuts in social welfare for a financial crisis they were not responsible for. He imagines alternative futures that will allow different generations to still appreciate themselves as Europeans with a future in Europe.
