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Improve your school’s productivity with existing resources by implementing performance-based budgeting. Included are step-by-step instructions for how to do more with less.
Ideas to Action
Ideas to Action
Budgeting at times may appear as “mission impossible.” Given fewer resources than needed to carry out the responsibilities of the system, the situation isn't always hopeless. In that case, the system leadership needs to question revenue and expenditure assumptions, history, projections, mandates, the “musts,” and the continuing costs. As one Montana school board member stated, “We can't get ten pounds of sugar out of a five pound sack.” The system needs to think outside the box and find ways and means to change policies and approaches to boost revenues and/or reduce expenditures. Rolling current activities forward into successive years without careful scrutiny of results will continue to suboptimize system improvement. The principle of abandonment helps here–if it isn't possible to ...
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