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Budgeting Practices
visionary manefestation
constancy in planning
Effective
and Efficient
Budgeting
Practices
Casual Budget
Barriers Development &
Identification Implementation
Prioritizing
Goal Setting
School
& Objective
Based
Development
Needs
Adequate Funding
States and districts are continually attempting to evaluate how schools are
utilizing their funding resources to improve student outcomes, much work
remains to be done to adequately ensure that school expenditures equate to
student academic improvement.
Current funding systems have yet to adequately link the availability of school
funding and the educational needs and academic achievement of students.
Adequate Funding
Therefore,
3. Project current and future average daily attendance to seek district allocation,
as instructional leaders, it is important to make sure our Budget Plan matches our
School Improvement Plan. So , whats a principal to do to analyze his/her budget and
school improvement plan?
Performing an Informational
Analysis
This a thorough examination of the school improvement plan
and implications associated with the school budget-
development process. (Things to consider)
Review and analyse data - scrutinize the data and determine
the factors that are contributing to low students
performance.
Implement best practice strategies after analysing data.
Steps to performing an information
analysis
Qualitative data - Teams must examine soft outside data sources:
Provide teachers with opportunity to visit sites that are implementing the best
practices
Analyze survey results, interviews of teachers, parents and students, seek teacher
Goal Setting and Objective
Development
Function/objective budgeting
* Funds (the budget plan) should be allocated to support the action plan (based
on school achievement)
Facts:
4. Well-dressed; and
Note:
Principals should insist that all cash received be accompanied by a written receipt of
the calculated dollar amount.
Principals should do a spot-check process i.e. cash received is cash recorded; monitor
bookkeeping records;
10 Precautionary Practices
1. Ensure that the individuals who expend monies are not the custodians of
accounting for said monies.
Effective and efficient budgeting practices are dependent upon skillful school
leaders who know more than budgetary management.
budgetary systems