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Black, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1991
The zero-based curriculum model can help school boards and administrators make decisions about what to keep and what to cut. All instructional programs are ranked and judged in categories ranging from required to optional. (MLF)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Speer, Tibbett L. – American School Board Journal, 1997
Describes recent efforts to combat the downward spiral of music programs in American schools. Increasing enrollments in arts education coupled with financial downsizing have spurred music educators and concerned constituents to fight for inclusion of fine arts programs in school curricula. (LMI)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fine Arts
Quinn, Cheri L. – American School Board Journal, 2003
Story of Empire School District (Oklahoma) school board's decision to cut the budget in the mid-1980s, including the elimination of the popular music and band program and termination of its director, a decision that caused considerable community conflict resulting in the defeat of all the incumbent board members at the polls and the resignation of…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Budgeting
