Presented is the 1974 annual report of the Office for Children, an agency responsible for monitoring and coordinating all services for children in Massachusetts. Among the aspects covered are administrative organization; the development and implementation of a special budget for new and expanded children's services; the formation of 39…

This paper describes in detail the design and operation of the program budgeting and accounting system developed for use at the Wisconsin Center for Cognitive Learning (CCL), an educational research and development center based at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. The CCL system uses a computer to generate a variety of budget data and…

The report provides additional amplification for the concepts, purposes, techniques, and procedures of economic analysis. It also focuses on and discusses potential difficulties one is likely to encounter in doing an economic analysis. The key elements of the process are discussed in detail: (1) establishing and defining objectives, (2)…

A management-by-objectives project designed to provide a rational basis for implementing a programming-planning-budgeting evaluation system in the school district is summarized. The project goal was to design and implement an accountability model utilizing participative management as a tool for development. Three organizational phases involved in…

Described is an instructional program that served approximately 125 hospitalized children in grades 1-12 during a 2-year period. Attention is given to the background and institutional climate, organization (including administration, staff, and physical facilities), operation (including objectives and strategies for individualized instruction),…

At present, NIE, organizationally and in its staff concerns, is primarily oriented to issues as they apply to early learning and primary and secondary education. Currently, the postsecondary activities of NIE are within the Office of Research and Exploratory Studies where a task force on postsecondary education is located. The short-term contract…

U. S. Office of Education funding has been provided to Region Nine for fiscal year 1973 for an Adult Basic Education (ABE) staff development effort, aimed at improving the delivery of adult education services to meet target population needs and Federal program goals through preservice and inservice training of personnel engaged in adult education…

Where research activities operate under "fixed" budgetary and resource conditions, allocations of funds must be carefully planned for effective program implementation. Although relatively little information is available on how small research units could use the principles of programed budgeting, a technique for ascertaining program…

Comprehensive information in the field of vocational education is a necessity for purposes of annual state plans, evaluations, and 5-year projections. All available information about career education in Arizona through mid-1970 has been compiled in this report, and an annual supplement will update it. The report also shows how well the educational…

This 5-year educational plan intends to change the Department of Industrial Education and Technology to a more inclusive program entitled the School of Industry. The purposes of the university, the goals of the department and school and community factors are all considered. The action phase of the program change deals selectively with aspects of…

This document reviews Federal and State school food programs, discusses financial problems caused by rising costs, and recommends processes and techniques that will assist school officials in management processes such as PPBS and systems analysis. The document also presents ways to best allocate limited resources, and examines future funding…

The Program Planning Budgeting Systems (PPBS) approach to decision-making has been adopted by government agencies and many colleges, universities and local school systems. As a result, the quantity of literature has increased phenomenally. This bibliography is intended to assist students, researchers, and practitioners in identifying references in…

Many educational administrators are skeptical of school district attempts to use the planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) tool. This skepticism seems, in large part, to be the result of two factors: (1) A general lack of understanding of the concrete operational steps involved in the implementation of PPBS, and (2) a feeling that the…

The National Institute of Education is requesting a $25 million supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year. Of this request, $16,250,000 would be expended to honor prior government commitments to ongoing programs. These commitments are primarily the projects being conducted at the regional educational laboratories and research and…

Higher education faces continuing cost pressures from a multitude of new demands. The consequence is a new emphasis upon resource allocation that is only possible if the required data about program costs, program outputs, and program income are readily available. The task of the new management in higher education is to gather the needed…