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

Author: William K. Jr. Poston
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 11/10/2010
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.99h x 7.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781412990905

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 213

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William K. Poston Jr. is an Emeritus Professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he served for 17 years. A former math and physics teacher, he accumulated 25 years of experience in educational administration including 15 years as a superintendent in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, and in Billings, Montana. His experience includes serving as executive director of the Iowa School Business Management Academy--the licensure program for school business managers in Iowa--for 15 years. He is the originator of curriculum-driven budgeting, and he has led over 75 curriculum audits. Poston has written 13 books and over 40 journal articles and continues to provide extensive service to schools in the areas of evaluation, curriculum management auditing, performance-based budgeting, and organizational quality improvement.