This study examines formerly incarcerated student programming from practitioner perspectives at California community colleges. The following research questions guide the study: 1) How has the pandemic and concurrent sociopolitical contexts influence the way staff, faculty, and administrators approach their work? 2) How do practitioners describe…

This institute was held at Ohio State University, October 21-November 1, 1968 to fulfill two main purposes: (1) to provide an opportunity for personnel in state departments of vocational education to become knowledgeable in the concepts, methods, and practice of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS), and (2) to test a package of PPBS…

A basic look at zero base budgeting and some of the reasons for its use in education. (Author)

The materials in the document report on the development of a program planning budgeting evaluating system in the Dade County, Florida, public schools. Materials cover the development and design of the system from its inception and implementation in the winter and spring of 1971. The project chronology and the program structure and the management…

This document contains proceedings of a conference that presented a design for applying a program planning-budgeting-evaluating system (PPBES) to educational management. Included are (1) the keynote address, tracing the origin and future of program budgeting; (2) the presentation of the educational management design developed by the Research…

Aimed at local program directors, the handbook provides fundamental information, procedures, and strategies regarding the implementation and development of career education programs, K-10, in Ohio. An overview provides information on the purposes, history, administration, and educational components of the Ohio Career Education Program. Chapters…

Although the public is best served by governmental agencies which have integrated the major functions of planning, managing, and budgeting, it can be asserted that the planning function is paramount. A review of the evolution of public agency administration in the U.S. reveals that until recent years the planning function has been largely…

Fifteen pilot districts in California are using a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS) to bring the logic of systems analysis to their educational procedures. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to estimate the costs in both money and teachers' and administrators' time required to implement the School Planning Evaluation and Communication System (SPECS). The primary source of data was the SPECS field test site activities records maintained by the SPECS development team. Costs were calculated for each…

This report contains papers by various authors who examine accountability from the perspective of students, teachers, administrators, trustees, and society. The report serves to offer more clarity and dimension to the accountability concept for the administrator seeking knowledge about the emerging patterns of administrative accountability. Other…

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…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit is to provide an introduction to the concept of program budgeting by focusing on several key elements to be considered in the development of a program budgeting system. These elements are an examination of the school's organizational patterns in defining and designing the district's educational…