TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garner, C. William
TI  - Education finance for school leaders: strategic planning and administration 
SN  - 130978620
AV  - LB 2825 .G36 2004 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
PB  - Prentice Hall/Merrill
KW  - EDUCATIONAL PLANNING
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. Financing public education -- II. Constructing a strategic financial plan -- III. Preparing and administering site-based and district plans
N2  - In the latter part of the 20th century, the financial practices of school districts began to change. Specifically, some of these developments included:  - new accounting and budgeting rules along with stringent accountability demands,  - acknowledgment of the economic importance of education to people and society, which generated measures of effectiveness and efficiency from the national to the local level,  - legal directives from state legislatures and courts that placed new regulations on the distribution of educational money, and  - implementation of new standards for programs to prepare and license school administrators.  Indeed, these and other changes opened the 21st century to a new and shifting perspective on the financing of public schools and new financial skills for school leaders.  In response to these emerging rules, legal directives, standards, and other operating expectations, I developed a conceptual framework over a 12-year period while teaching a school finance course to aspiring school administrators. At the outset, I set a course parameter that future school administrators, as well as the professors who teach a school finance course, although needing a certain fluency with the process, could not be expected to become accountants. This book is a product of that work
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