As the newly promoted director of student achievement for Washington, D.C Public Schools, I am fully committed to the expansion of current program offerings as well as the creation of additional programs. To achieve this, I will make use of the principles learned in my graduate budgeting course to assess the current financial situation, plan the department’s future direction, create and implement the new annual budget, and lastly, evaluate the success of the programs and the budget in preparation of repeating these steps.
The first step will be to analyze the current financial environment. In an attempt to do so, I will identify evaluative criteria to evaluate the success of the budget and its impact on the success of my department’s programs. Once I have recognized the needed changes, I will appeal to the school division budget makers to demonstrate the need for more funding. In doing so, I will be sure to demonstrate the success of current and past programs that my department has funded and how with additional funding the department will be able to improve student achievement on a larger scale.
The second step will be to set goals for the expansion
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In terms of budget, I will review the accounting system’s record of financial transactions. In terms of the programmatic goals, I will examine the department’s ability to achieve the goals of the expanded and newly created programs. Essentially, I will review the department’s ability to maintain accountability to the beneficiaries of our programs and to the school division budget makers. My assessment will be used to assess the department’s ability to manage our financial and programmatic responsibilities. Likewise, close to the end of the fiscal year, the department will have the school division’s auditor come and inspect our finances and ensure that we did everything
In 1996 the city of Cleveland began a $750 million Plant Enhancement Program. The program’s goal was to renovate and modernize the city’s four water treatment facilities, which are among the 10 largest in the US, and were built in 1856; over 500 million gallons of water are pumped to Cleveland residents daily. In the following paper I attempt to provide with an overview of the Baldwin
The plan outlines five goals that we have found for our school district. These goals show our commitment to provide the highest possible standards of education for all students in our district and to ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all members of our community. We consider understanding individual differences in each student and teacher so that we can adopt the appropriate programs of study for them of the utmost importance.
15. What are your thoughts of the importance of understanding the per patient day (PPD)
Since Florida MIS is relatively small business focusing in part of the Tampa area the budget can still be considered low. Until the time that Florida MIS expands the budget can be kept at a minimum. To determine the budget for structuring the social media platform there needs to be budgeting in salaries, system tools, and networking.
If the current system not the administration calculates that the annually will increase as a chance to reinforce the district where it needs the assistance. While increased funding not necessarily equate to improvements in student performance, it’s funding and where it is clearly needs to be addressed. Ambitious effort to lift student achievement and, fundamentally, to undermine the idea of public
Another factor that I would use to help guide the budget decisions is by determining if the district has enough staff to meet the
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Campus is need of educating parents the importance of 8th graduation requirements and have parents come to the school to speak with the Transitional Counselor about their child's four-year graduation plan. In math the campus continues to increase rigor and align assignments and assessments to the TEKS and making sure students are receiving an intervention, if needed. In ELA the campus is seeking to increase instruction to higher cognitive levels and increase scores on all assessments throughout the year. Campus need to have data to make sure that each student gets an intervention, if needed and need to study the evidence to see if the interventions are having an impact on student learning beyond the primary classroom instruction. The campus need of assistive technology in the classrooms (when utilizing Read Write 11 Program for text to speech/speech to text software) especially for SPED students. Students placed in general education (from Read 180) aren't receiving support in areas of literature and language arts. ELA and ESL need more workshop model as their instructional design and delivery to maximize student engagement, so students are doing the majority of the reading, writing, talking, and
Participating in this assignment provided me much new insight into the general subject of the management of school funds. From reading the audit, I learned that I could get a fair, professional view of my school district’s financial standing. I can see now how going through the process of an audit and reading the results and recommendations can only help the administration, and thus the school. It makes sense that our school board and administration base many of their financial decisions off of our audits because they give a true and fair view of the school’s financial status. Plus, I learned how our school can use this information to correct any deficiencies,
Central Office leadership, when constructing a budget, must consider all aspects of the educational process including the effects of management of support services such as facilities, transportation, and food service. Local school districts are allowed to request bonds passed by the voters of the school district zone for specific projects or general projects. The bond proposals can come in through many different avenues such as capital outlay, sinking fund, operating millage are all ways in which this can be done, each having different purposes and ways in which funding can be used. A district must understand the vital impact for effective long-term planning for facility management and transportation. If the district is not effective in
As a growing and diversifying department, it is necessary from time to time for us to review our programs, our policies, and our staffing requirements. Please look over these expectations and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
I described the function of our department in great detail to clearly depict how our department is focused more on goal setting than outcomes. We generally know what the outcomes will be because we provide professional development for public school teachers based on a seasonal cycle of completion. For me, it is a matter of working independently toward meeting set objectives in a timely fashion.
The purpose of the budget variance report is to analyze the results for the budget prepared for Peyton approved. I will also be describing what the operating budget and variance analysis are and the difference between using each one.
As we review and synthesize data of a district for planning school improvement, the following information is needed to access and determine the needs of a school. First, a thorough analysis of performance data must be reviewed to see how school districts measure up with state and federal accountability. During this process, it is very important that schools focus the performance indicators that will guarantee growth and success. School teams must refer to the districts mission and vision to guide the planning process. The performance indicators will provide data that will be beneficial in creating improvement strategies. So, after careful evaluation of the data, the next step would be to plan effective methods and strategies that will improve student achievement. Moreover, this plan should include needs, demographics and opportunities for students to be successful. Additionally, the baseline data is important information to include in the improvement plan.
Budgetary control is part of overall organisation control and is concerned primarily with the control of performance. The use of budgetary control in performance management has of late taken on greater importance especially as a more integrative control mechanism for the organisation. Discuss.