The Essentials of Finance for School Leaders

A Practical Handbook for Problem-Solving and Meeting Challenges

Tyrone Bynoe, Steve Bounds, Davíd G. Martínez (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6176-1 (ISBN)

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The book’s intent is to equip the school level practitioner with hands-on insight so that they can strategically allocate resources their school as effective stewards of public funds carefully utilized to improve student achievement and school culture.

The Essentials of Finance for School Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Problem-Solving and Meeting Challenges is carefully authored to provide supervisory practitioners at the school building level with the vital tools of school finance literacy alongside an understanding of school finance policy that impacts the everyday operation of today’s public schools. This book is designed for candidates in entry-level school building leadership programs as well as for inexperienced and experienced school principals, assistant principals, department chairs, dean of students, financial secretaries, local school bursars, faculty treasurers, and more.

Tyrone Bynoe is an Associate Professor of Education and the Director of Educational Leadership programs at St. Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, New York). Dr. Bynoe has been a faculty member in higher education for eighteen years, and he was a public-school practitioner for seventeen years. Steve Bounds is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Learning and Educational Leadership at Arkansas Tech University. He worked 31 years in K-12 education, four as a high school principal and 17 as a school superintendent. Davíd G. Martínez, PhD is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the College of Education of the University of South Carolina. Davíd is a protean critical school finance policy scholar connecting policy knowledge and praxis through multi-method inquiry.

Part I: School Building Financial Leadership
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Budgeting: Sources and Effectiveness
Chapter 3: Accounting, Purchasing and Bidding
Chapter 4: Financial Reporting and School Results
Chapter 5: Other Funding Challenges
Part II: Educational Funding Streams and Expenditures
Chapter 6: Major Local Sources of School Revenue
Chapter 7: Major State and Federal Sources of School Revenue
Chapter 8: Student Activity Funds
Chapter 9: Special Education Funding
Chapter 10: Personnel Expenditures
Chapter 11: Facilities and Maintenance Expenditures
Part III: School Funding Competition
Chapter 12: Privatization and Vouchers
Chapter 13: Charter School Funding
Chapter 14: Education Spending Accounts
Part IV: Improving School Financial Leadership for the Future
Chapter 15: Site-Level Financial Leadership for Principals and Staff
Chapter 16: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities of a School Budgeting Officer

Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4758-6176-1 / 1475861761
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-6176-1 / 9781475861761
Zustand	Neuware