School Based Budgets

School-Based Budgets

Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting an overview of the basics of financial matters that affect school districts and individual school buildings, this highly practical book spells out the methodology, individual roles, and rationale for site-based budgeting and describes the relationship between central and site levels. It discusses income, expenditures, and accounting responsibilities, and emphasizes the opportunity and obligations of the administration, faculty, staff, school site councils, and central district officials related to the total budgeting, expenditure, and control processes.

School Budgeting for Hard Times

A win-win solution to the battle of the budget Are you challenged to improve your school’s productivity with existing or even diminishing resources? This invaluable reference will show you how to do more with less. Educator William K. Poston, Jr. contends that the needs of curriculum and learning should drive the budgeting process, not the other way around. The solution is implementing performance-based budgeting. This text gives step-by-step instructions for: Using assessment data to determine budget priorities Applying quality enhancement principles to the process Incorporating measurable performance to attain funding

School-based Budgeting