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Griffin-Bonnaire, Nancy – School Business Affairs, 2009
Many people were relieved to bid farewell to 2008, a year that will be remembered for unprecedented economic woes that rippled from Wall Street to Main Street and around the globe. The world's financial problems will not be resolved overnight, and in this fragile economy, school district budget cuts are likely the norm. Is there anything school…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Financial Problems, Educational Finance, School Business Officials
Russo, Charles J. – School Business Affairs, 2009
In the opening sentence of his May 1949 article in this journal, Ward W. Keesecker was on the mark in writing, "What the Supreme Court of the United States has said pertaining to State school administration and how their decisions affect the rights and privileges of individuals are matters of wide interest and concern to school business officials…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, School Administration, Court Litigation, Student Rights
Morse, Timothy E. – School Business Affairs, 2009
Autism has recently become a more common topic in discussions about how schools can best serve special-education populations. Recent studies have reported the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to be 1 in 152 children (Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network Surveillance Year 2002 Principal Investigators 2007). Since…
Descriptors: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, School Business Officials, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Thro, William E. – School Business Affairs, 2009
At first blush, the Supreme Court's recent decision in "Horne v. Flores" (2009) appears to be about the proper standard for determining when to modify a previous judgment, a topic that would interest only civil procedure geeks. Yet, on closer examination, "Horne" is about giving local and state officials discretion to solve education problems and,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), School Business Officials
Supple, Kevin F. – School Business Affairs, 2009
School business officials' days are filled with numbers and reports--audits, balance sheets, check registers, financial statements, journal entries, vouchers, and warrant reports, just to name a few. Those are all important tools that school business officers use to manage the financial resources of the district effectively. However, they are also…
Descriptors: School Business Officials, Work Environment, Educational Finance, Reports
Boettger, Julie – School Business Affairs, 2009
School nutrition directors face challenges on many fronts, from changing nutrition standards to addressing community interest in sustainability and local food sourcing. Programs are constantly changing to meet these new demands. How does a school business administrator know which changes will affect his/her school nutrition program positively? The…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Program Effectiveness, Decision Making, Data
Weeks, Richard – School Business Affairs, 2009
The transformative powers of digital technology to improve student learning and the resulting effect of that technology to make the business of education more cost-effective are two of the more exciting dynamics in schooling today. Before the current school year ends, new products and upgrades will be available to replace much of the technology.…
Descriptors: Information Management, Educational Technology, Superintendents, School Business Officials
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2008
School business officials kept a close watch on the financial markets this week--and on district investment portfolios and teacher-retirement funds--as stock prices gyrated and once-sound institutions got government bailouts or crumbled into bankruptcy. While financial observers said it was too soon to predict how Wall Street's upheaval might…
Descriptors: Money Management, School Districts, Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement
Russo, Charles J. – School Business Affairs, 2009
Free speech concerns associated with collective bargaining become important when unions impose fair-share fees that charge nonmembers for costs associated with the benefits they receive through labor negotiations. When unions collect fair-share fees, those payments often support causes with which nonmembers and dissenting members disagree.…
Descriptors: Unions, Teaching (Occupation), School Districts, Collective Bargaining
Dolph, David A. – School Business Affairs, 2009
In times of limited resources, the likelihood of difficult negotiations between labor and management may increase even in the best of school districts. The negotiation process can range from traditional to positional to competitive to a more collaborative and cooperative interest-based approach. The most productive approach is a matter of debate…
Descriptors: School Business Officials, Employer Employee Relationship, Work Environment, Negotiation Agreements
Raymond, Randall E. – School Business Affairs, 2009
Aging school infrastructure, changing population dynamics, decreased funding, and increased accountability for reporting school success all require today's school business officials to combine a variety of disparate data sets into a coherent system that enables effective and efficient decision making. School business officials are required to: (1)…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Boards of Education, School Business Officials, Planning
Warner, Carolyn – School Business Affairs, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is likely the greatest single infusion of federal dollars into education since Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965 during Lyndon Johnson's presidency. When President Johnson signed that act, he said its purpose was to give every child in America "all the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Presidents, Politics of Education, Federal Aid
Prombo, Michael; Dalianis, Ares G.; Metcalf, Scott R. – School Business Affairs, 2009
Preserving existing revenues is an essential component of the work of school business officials. The broad ranges of activities that can affect school district revenues make identifying potential threats difficult. By understanding the issues that affect school district revenue, school business officials are better able to diminish its erosion--a…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Business Officials, School District Wealth, Income
Endsley, Krista – School Business Affairs, 2009
Today, many school districts are turning to business intelligence tools to retrieve, organize, and share knowledge for faster analysis and more effective, guided decision making. Business intelligence (BI) tools are the technologies and applications that gather and report information to help an organization's leaders make better decisions. BI…
Descriptors: School Business Officials, Access to Information, Information Management, Accountability
Malinowski, Matthew J. – School Business Affairs, 2009
When tough economic times set in, school business administrators heighten their normal zeal in finding ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The author's school district recently underwent a yearlong internal self-analysis to examine and determine the proper staffing levels for the administrative functions within the school district's…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, School Districts, School Business Officials, Economic Change
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