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Download full textPerkins, Joseph A., Jr. – 1969
Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems (PPBS) provide a new approach to the optimum use of limited school system resources in improving the learning process. In conjunction with Management Information Systems (MIS), PPBS is a tool which school officials can use to communicate to taxpayers the necessity for current school programs and the manner…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
Tuscher, Leroy J. – 1973
The purpose of the study was to provide "baseline" data for determining the feasibility of further investigation into the use of quantitive judgmental data in evaluating school programs for determining program budget allocations. The specific objectives were to: 1) Apply a Cost-Utility Model to a "real world" situation in a public secondary…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Worner, Roger B. – 1973
Planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) have borne few of the fruits that many claimed they would. This is partly due to the five following widely held misconceptions about PPBS: 1) that PPBS is primarily concerned with budgeting; 2) that PPBS should displace instructional goals; 3) that it is not necessary to attend to all elements of PPBS;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Siegel, Dorothy – 2003
This digest examines a completed pilot program in performance-driven budgeting (PDB) in the New York City public-school system. PDB links school-level budgeting and school planning; that is, decisions about resources must be aligned with school-developed instructional-improvement plans. The digest highlights how PDB came about; its primary goal;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Budgets, Educational Finance
Association of Canadian Community Colleges. – 2000
In this report, the Canadian Community College Association (CCCA) offers its rationale for urging the government of Canada to increase transfer payments to the provinces in support of postsecondary education by $2 billion per annum, as well as making an additional increase in transfer payments that would contribute to the future expansion of…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Colleges, Economics of Education, Educational Finance
Hartman, William T.; And Others – 1984
To investigate school districts' responses to fiscal constraint, this study examined the relationship between districts' expenditures per student and allocations of funds to instructional, support, and administrative costs. Budget allocations, as indicators of the districts' priorities, were compared for 1978-79 and 1981-82 in 46 Oregon school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Financial Problems
Hathaway, Walter E. – 1981
Due to enrollment decline, reductions in federal support, and declining state support because of a constricted economy, growing inflation, expanding government and legal requirements, and the loss of public confidence in education, the Portland School District (Oregon) developed a short-term contingency budget planning process in fiscal 1980-81 to…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cooperative Programs, Cost Estimates, Educational Planning
Knezevich, Stephen J. – The Executive Review, 1981
Interest in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) has waned over the last five years for several reasons. Early rhetoric about PPBS obscured its true character and promised more than it could deliver. Initially, few had the competencies needed to implement it. It is often wrongly believed to be solely a budgeting system. Finally,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Computer Science, Decision Making
Governor's Commission on Public School Finance, Raleigh, NC. – 1979
Presented in this report is a study of the North Carolina school finance system and related areas and recommendations for assuring more equitable financial support for an equal educational opportunity for every child in the State. An overview of the Commission's study is provided. Certain aspects of the public school system in North Carolina are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
MOOD, ALEXANDER M.; POWERS, RICHARD – 1967
DIFFICULTIES ARE ENCOUNTERED WHEN COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES ARE APPLIED TO EDUCATION. THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN THE ATTEMPT TO DEFINE AN EDUCATIONAL GOAL AND IN THE ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOW ENGAGED IN A MULTITUDE OF PROJECTS DESIGNED TO COORDINATE RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT. THIS ENTAILS CONTINUED…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Benefits, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Arora, Mehar – 1975
The study was directed toward developing a manual for establishing societal benefits and costs of vocational and manpower programs in Wisconsin. After first outlining the background of benefit-cost analysis, problems in establishing cost functions in education are presented along with some important cost concepts and uses of cost information in…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Educational Programs
Dyer, James S. – 1969
This document (1) describes current PPBS techniques and their limitations for planning and budgeting in public higher education; (2) presents suggestions for PPBS applications in higher education systems, with emphases on the problems of identifying objectives, evaluating effectiveness, and structuring the program budget; and (3) analyzes the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Objectives
Wellman, Jane V. – 1987
A review is provided of the major fiscal, historic, and management issues influencing the debate about community college finance and governance in California. The report begins with a brief discussion of the major points of difference between the funding mechanisms for the community colleges and for the state's two public university systems. These…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, College Administration, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Hope, John, III, Ed. – 1975
The stated objectives of the study reported here were to determine the answers to the following questions: what Federal, State and local programs provide contracting opportunities for minorities and women equal to those provided to nonminority males; if not, what the barriers to their full participation are; to what extent special State or local…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, Agency Role
Halstead, D. Kent – 1976
Higher Education price in index data for fiscal years 1971 through 1975 are presented. The supplement is published yearly shortly after the fiscal year to which the latest data refer, and the index values refer to the entire year, not any specific month of the year. The basic study, "Higher Education Prices and Price Indexes," presents complete…
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Cost Estimates, Cost Indexes, Educational Economics
