School Budgeting for Hard Times: Confronting Cutbacks and Critics

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