More than 112,000 Indiana students speak a language other than English at home, and there are over 275 different languages represented in Indiana schools. Of these, over 50,000 students have been formally identified as English learners due to limited proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing academic English. English learners make…

The materials in this booklet began as a script for a tape/slide progress report on Project Simu School, to be used in presentations to various groups who have had an interest in the project. The project was developed to create and implement a system to piece together and communicate educational knowledge to enable educators to improve their…

Educational facilities have changed to accommodate changes in the provision of educational services. Today, educational facilities utilize innovative design concepts, new materials and finished surfaces, and sophisticated furniture and equipment. The full utilization of such facilities can easily suffer from a lack of adequate knowledge about…

Network-based management procedures serve as valuable aids in organizational management, achievement of objectives, problem solving, and decisionmaking. Network techniques especially applicable to educational management systems are the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and the critical path method (CPM). Other network charting…

This volume presents background information on the project and explains the needs and decisions that actuated its implementation. First year activities and some preliminary teaching material on the concept of PPB (planning-programing- budgeting) in education are also described. The major focus is on a description of the proposed system, a…

This report begins with an educational administrator's view of an information system (i.e., data processing applications) and his strategy for system improvement. The document then moves to a broadly defined view of a district's information system in terms of information system dimensions and the problems normally addressed by a system improvement…

This booklet contains the material used at a planning session of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the superintendent of schools held in conjunction with the district's Title III project entitled, "Building a Comprehensive Planning System Model with EPPBS." The purpose of the material is to provide the educational decisionmakers with…

A planning model incorporating the concepts of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS) was developed in the Duluth, Minnesota public school system to assist in the consolidation of federally funded programs in the district, especially those under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title III. A cost effectiveness model…

In 1965-66 most local school districts in Pennsylvania completed reorganization by consolidating 67 county school offices into 25 or 30 intermediate administrative units. This document presents the results of various task group activities and projected activities to develop a "generalized" educational planning, programing, budgeting…

A comprehensive, community environmental inventory is viewed in this booklet as an ongoing process of investigation and study to compile and evaluate information about the natural and man-made environmental features and characteristics of an area. It is of value to the community in planning development and resolving environmental problems and to…

To increase the efficiency of human and financial resource allocations, the El Dorado County, California, Office of Education initiated a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS). This document is a progress report on the effectiveness of the system after one year of operation. It contains (1) a statement on goals, (2) charts of the program…

This document consists of three sections: a summary of the development of government budgeting, a discussion of the concepts and applicability of performance budgeting, and a critique of the techniques and usefulness of PPBS with a detailed analysis of its economic assumptions. Appendixes show that an optimum solution to the problem of allocations…

Resource acquisition is a general process active in all social organizations. The relative success of organizational resource mobilization determines whose goals and values will be met. Several factors impinge on resource mobilization, including suborganizational levels, technological sophistication, professionalization, and unionization.…

This report, a clear statement of how one district developed a planning system, offers both a theoretical and a practical approach to providing the superintendent, his staff, and the board of education with a comprehensive planning system instrument for making policy decisions and allocating resources. Also provided are guidelines for involving…

Realizing the importance of human personality variables in comprehensive educational assessment structures, Operation PEP sought to develop a tool to assess specific human personality characteristics. The resulting accounting scheme is divided into three chapters: (1) an outline and definition of relevant terminology, (2) a scheme to account for…