Full Description
Align your school budget with your vision for student achievement
Since 2006, The Principal's Guide to School Budgeting has been a best-seller, supporting thousands of principals in navigating the complex process of school budgeting. This fourth edition hones in on the message that a school budget should be a reflection of the school's vision for student growth, an open culture, and a positive school climate. This edition offers new information on how national and state reform and political practices affect school allocations and emphasizes the need for appropriate budget visioning, planning, analysis, and needs assessment. Covering the budgeting process, effective budgeting practices, accounting and auditing procedures, and building the school budget within a collaborative decision-making context, this comprehensive guide includes:
In-chapter vignettes and discussion questions
Case study applications and experiential exercises
A budget development project
New discussion of technology's impact on budgetary practices, phishing scams, and fundraising
The Principal's Guide to School Budgeting is an essential resource for practicing and aspiring school administrators who want to master their accounting and auditing procedures. By effectively managing the school budgeting process, principals can contribute to improved student achievement and strengthen connections with the school community.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Budget-Vision Relationship and the
Chapter 2: Culture, Data, Conflict Resolution, and Celebrating Success
Chapter 3: A Model for Integrating Vision, Planning, and Budgeting
Chapter 4: Understanding the Budgeting Process
Chapter 5: School Funding and Steps to Budgeting Success
Chapter 6: Effective, Efficient, and Essential Budgeting Practices
Chapter 7: Accounting, Auditing, Risk Factors, and Leadership Behaviors
Chapter 8: Site-Based Decision Making, The Budget Coding Structure
Chapter 9: Building the School Budget: Budgetary Applications and Specialized Forms and Procedures
Resource A. The Budget Development Project - A Hands-On Experiential Exercise
Resource B. Selected Forms
Resource C. Experiential Exercises
Resource D. Budgeting Checklist for School Administrators
References
Index
