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Yagielski, John – 1975
With the introduction of zero-base budgeting (ZBB), the district took a major step toward providing more and better information on which to base allocation decisions. This manual provides an overview of the complete process to be used in formulating the budget for the second fiscal year during which ZBB is to be used. The formulation of decision…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Costs, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Levinson, Eliot – 1976
This study considers the implementation of parent choice and parent information in the Alum Rock demonstration as a case study in organizational response to innovation. Analysis of the implementation process focuses on two dimensions: the division of the implementation process into three phases--initiation, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Decision Making, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Neil, James M.; Manceri, Paul K. – School Business Affairs, 1977
The latest budget technique requires that the administrator identify all programs under his control, evaluate each in terms of cost, indicate merits and alternate solutions, rank programs according to dollar costs, and finally prioritize his programs according to assessed needs. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Mauceri, Paul; O'Neil, James – School Business Affairs, 1977
Examples of the decision package mentioned in the previous issue in an article "Zero Base Budgeting." (MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Myroon, John L. – 1978
Zero-base budgeting (ZBB), a systematically structured approach to budgeting, has the potential to improve policy attainment, resource reallocation, program review, and information systems. Some 300 businesses, a dozen states, one municipality, and one school district in the United States have operationalized the concept. Many private and public…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Climate, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Miller, Irving – 1974
Program objectives and fiscal accountability were combined as program budgeting was developed in a local school district. This approach to budgeting increased staff involvement, emphasized the system approach, and improved communications. The budget development process is described and documented through one school year. (Author/DW)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Jefferson, Anne L. – Education Canada, 1995
Decentralizing educational budgets allows the disbursement of funds aimed at maximizing student development. Three strategies for decentralizing budgets are program budgeting, which eliminates line-item budgeting and allows administrators to address questions regarding the relative value of educational programs; zero-based budgeting, which allows…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decentralization, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Frantz, David A.; Bornstein, Irwin – School Business Affairs, 1978
Describes the basic concepts and suggested procedures for introducing zero base budgeting. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Guides, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Christiansen, L. E.; Katterle, Zeno – 1980
These materials from Beaverton Schools, District Number 48 (Oregon) provide an annual program review process within the context of the regular planning and budgeting processes. Information obtained from the review process (an analytic and decision-making process) is intended to serve as a basis for determining what program levels should be…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Planning

Tanner, C. Kenneth; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1974
The focus of this article is upon an approach to allocating educational resources which is structured to minimize existing inadequacies in distribution procedures. It also presents some practical problems encountered in initiating a new allocation procedure at the State level. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Hartman, William T. – 1999
This book is devoted exclusively to the budgeting process in school districts, unlike the more common generic budgeting texts. As such, it allows an in-depth treatment of both conceptual and practical aspects of budgeting in a single volume. By default, school business officials have had to rely on the state education accounting manual as their…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Decision Making, Educational Finance
Lederer, James Brian – 1981
The paper presents a model to assist administrators of special education programs for multiply handicapped children in making budgetary decisions and in evaluating therapy programs. The model's use requires that the efficiency and effectiveness of the various therapeutic services be measured and that the service needs of the multiply handicapped…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making
Matson, William – 1975
The Portland Public Schools have developed a model to evaluate support services of the system. Services rendered are defined by goal statements and evaluated by recipients of the services. A computer-based system maintains the service goals of each support unit, selects goals, prepares an appropriate questionnaire for each of 66 different groups…
Descriptors: Administrators, Ancillary Services, Computer Programs, Databases
Howell, Penny – 1999
Collective bargaining to establish salaries, benefits, and working conditions for public school employees is now an institutionalized fact of life in California. Virtually all public school districts participate in collective bargaining. School districts can implement most new laws--from class-size reduction to teacher evaluation--only after they…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
DuVall, Lloyd A. – 1976
The School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an overall design for districtwide program assessment and development. It is both a way of interrelating planning and evaluation of individual programs and a way of comparing the outcomes of all district programs with the district's community-defined educational goals. Component…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
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