Article presented excerpts from a recent address by Dr. Edward J. Bloustein, President of Rutgers University, on program budgeting and educational accountability. (Editor/RK)

Attempts a brief analysis of the traditional decision-making process for budget preparation and the alternative, program planning, budgeting system (PPBS), in an effort to determine the effect of PPBS on the decision-making process for resource allocation and to answer the question of whether PPBS has improved decision-making processes. (Author/RK)

A recognized expert on Planning, Programing, Budgeting Systems presents an overview of this management tool as it relates to the school principal. (Editor)

One school district's experience with PPBS demonstrates that it can be an effective instrument for realistic involvement of the instructional staff in the development of system goals, objectives, and spending priorities. (Author)

Most school boards still use the accounting methods of the forties and fifties. Outlined here is a method for the seventies - called Responsible Accounting. (Editor)

Summary of report on study entitled PLANNING FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN A PLANNING, PROGRAMMING AND BUDGETING STSTEM," by Selma Mushkin (Education Commission of the States Steering Committee meeting, December, 1968).

To ensure a more uniform accounting system and better communication with its schools, the State of California is introducing a planning-programing-budgeting system in all its public school districts. Schools must (1) identify specific goals for the management of the school system, and (2) subdivide functional areas into manageable units. The use…

In this discussion of the systems approach to educational change, the author discusses the programing, planning, budgeting, and evaluation aspects of a system for the management of educational resources. Four common misconceptions about PPBES are considered: (1) that PPBES can make decisions, (2) that costs can be completely quantitifed, (3) that…

Evaluation summaries for 56 programs implemented by The Dallas Independent School District during the 1979-80 school year are highlighted in this report. Each summary is listed under one of the following sections: Title I Projects; State Compensatory Education Projects; Emergency School Aid Act Projects; Title IV-C Projects; and Other Projects.…

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 provides a reason for applying known cost-accounting methodology within the realm of higher education and attempts to make the known techniques viable for sets of objectives within the university environment. The plan developed here is applied to a department, the lowest level in the university hierarchy, and demonstrates costs in…

Author looks at three little discussed issues which throw doubts on the basic philosophy underlying the White Paper. (Editor/RK)