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Budgeting Based on Results: A Return-on-Investment Model Contributes to More Effective Annual Spending Choices
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Cooper, Kelt L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
One major problem in developing school district budgets immune to cuts is the model administrators traditionally use--an expenditure model. The simplicity of this model is seductive: What were the revenues and expenditures last year? What are the expected revenues and expenditures this year? A few adjustments here and there and one has a budget.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Budgeting, Models, Expenditures
Broad Academy's Growing Reach Draws Scrutiny
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Samuels, Christina A. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
Billionaire businessman Eli Broad, one of the country's most active philanthropists, founded the Broad Superintendents Academy in 2002 with an extraordinarily optimistic goal: Find leaders from both inside and outside education, train them, and have them occupying the superintendencies in a third of the 75 largest school districts--in just two…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Change, Private Financial Support, Superintendents
Drug Education: Is It Doing Any Good?
Baker, Richard J. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1973
Article focuses on the dearth of misinformation on drug education and suggests programs designed to correct the problem. (RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Educational Researchers