Due to a diminishing level of available funds, school leaders are faced with difficult decisions associated with reducing budget expenditures. The only way to prevent losing more programs and services is to reduce spending. An area which is quickly gaining popularity in reducing expenditures is outsourcing. Many schools have turned to outside…

Competitive bids and the bid-opening process are the cornerstones of public school purchasing. The bid-opening process does not begin on the day of the bid opening. It begins with good planning by the purchasing agent to ensure that the advertised bid complies with the public school contracts law. In New Jersey, that raises the following…

Current New Jersey certification requirements (especially the residency mentoring components) have given professional school business administrators more oversight in admitting qualified individuals into the profession. Over the past 8 years, the field has opened to a wider field of candidates, many with accounting or auditing experience outside…

Because a crisis might be imminent, a written crisis-response plan is needed that clearly describes its purpose, offers guidance to individuals faced with safety issues and dangerous situations, and minimizes loss. The school-business official can serve as a central information control officer, freeing other administrators to concentrate on…

The primary objective of this project was to provide a more detailed description along with "real time" information to the community of educational administration preparation programs in the State of New Jersey as to what are considered to be the critical elements, skills and competencies current Chief School Administrators (CSA) in the…