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Download full textThompson, Jeremy; Young, J. Kenneth; Shelton, Kaye – School Leadership Review, 2021
Policymakers and professional educators attempt to be good stewards of public funds while simultaneously raising expectations for student outcomes that reflect academic excellence in the public school system. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of Texas public school districts and the factors influencing the inefficiency of…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Public Schools, School Districts, Performance Factors
Poindexter, Charles C. – High Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Planning
Lokken, Harry; Keenan, W. W. – 1970
The purpose of this field test was to determine the feasibility and desirability of implementing a program budgeting and accounting system in Minnesota school districts. Analysis of the proposed system determined that it was feasible for adoption in local education agencies. Modifications were made in the chart of accounts and in the coding…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Data Processing, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Cleckner, John – 1971
The author reviews five cost-effectiveness basic models including log-log correlational, general utility theory, simultaneous equations, nonlinear theoretical, and feedback. Several suggestions are made to improve the models and increase the domain of problems that can be considered by the models. In the second part of the paper, the author…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Education
Spottheim, David; And Others – 1984
This is a summary of a report which presents three models quantifying the relationships between educational means (resources) and ends (pupil achievements) to analyze resource allocation problems within school districts: (1) the Pupil Performance Model; (2) the Goal Programming Model; and (3) the Operational Structure of a School and Pupil…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Spottheim, David; And Others – 1984
This report details three models quantifying the relationships between educational means (resources) and ends (pupil achievements) to analyze resource allocation problems within school districts: (1) the Pupil Performance Model; (2) the Goal Programming Model; and (3) the Operational Structure of a School and Pupil Performance Model. These models…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Lawrence, Ben – Studies in Management, 1972
Program budgeting is described as a means of enabling higher education to respond effectively to three major accountability concerns. They are (1) the long-term financial implications of a particular programmatic or policy decision, (2) determination of what is being paid for, and (3) understanding that the price being paid for a program is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
