The Fairfax County Public School system, FCPS, just as other local public school districts is still

For the example in this memo, I will be focusing on the funding of educational programs. As you are aware, 38% of the property taxes fund school programs such as athletics, arts, and all day kindergarten. Due to the great recession, property values here in the Knoxtown area were greatly affected and a majority of properties lost nearly 50% of their assessed value. A significant portion of our constituents also lost their homes. Due in some part to these two factors, our projected revenue was not met. The overall revenue for the city was down 42% resulting in a serious budget shortfall. The loss of these property taxes resulted in the cutting of many school programs. The children of our constituents not have fewer athletic and arts programs to choose from as well as eliminating full day kindergarten for the next term. If corrections to the budget are not made, some bus services and reduced lunch programs will also be eliminated.

     The government does not fully provide funding for each school district since public schools are funded through property taxes (“Public”, 1). Therefore, the amount of money for

Bureau Valley’s school board is comprised of seven members. Each member represents a section of the district. These board members are very prominent figures in our communities; they have much of the communities support. Although popularity, may not be what is best for the students. Looking at the Bureau Valley school board mandates, they are ultimately only required to do 4 hours of training and attend a few meetings when elected (Bureau Valley 2013, 120). Unfortunately, it is 2016 and the board member with the most recent training of any sort happened in March of 2014, almost two years ago. David E. Lee and Daniel W. Eadens, authors of “The Problem: Low-Achieving Districts and Low-Performance Boards,” find that school boards like Bureau Valley’s are not uncommon. Lee and Eadens find that most school board members only receive about “six hours of training per year,” compared to Bureau Valley’s four per election, our board is severely undereducated (Lee and Eadens 2014, 3).

The Candler County School District is a small, rural school system located in southeast Georgia. Candler County is made up of the city of Metter and the town of Pulaski. Currently, there are four schools in Metter. Employing 369 faculty and staff, bus drivers, and central office staff, the school system is the largest employer in the county. Metter was founded in 1889 and incorporated in 1903 as a town in western Bulloch County. However, in 1906 Dr. Wallace Kennedy spearheaded a movement to create a new county with Metter as the county seat. The movement became reality in 1914 when Candler County was carved from parts of Bulloch, Emanuel and Tattnall counties and became Georgia 's 150th county. Metter re-incorporated as a city in 1920.

The meeting was held at the Glenwood Landing School Auditorium. It was hosted by the North Shore Schools Board of Education. It convened at six- thirty p.m. on Thursday October 6th, 2016 at 60 Cody Avenue, Glen Head, NY 11545. This meeting discussed issues, concerns, and matters that addressed the needs of the schools, students and community. The purpose of the North Shore Board of Education is to serve as a liaison between the community and the Board regarding legislative matters that have a direct bearing on fiscal or educational aspects of the North Shore Central School District. The Board of Education consists of seven individuals whose primary responsibilities include: establishing general policies consistent with the laws of New York State and the rules and regulations of the State Education Department.

What is the role of public schools? Who should be governing public schools? This paper will address each side of these educational issues as well as offer a position statement and an action plan.

The Financial Services Committee has the authority over issues pertaining to the economy, the banking system, housing, insurance and securities and exchanges.

Prosper, Texas is one of the last additions to Collin County and has a current population of over 12,000 residents (Minor, 2010). Prosper’s establishment came about from the merging of two farming settlements in 1902, however the city’s name was not incorporated until 1914 (“History”, n.d.; Minor, 2010). According to the city’s webpage, Prosper is committed to being family-oriented and providing every resident an opportunity to experience quality living while maintaining small town ideals (“About Prosper”, n.d.). The Prosper Independent School District’s (PISD) vision to “reach everyone, everyday” (“REACH Philosophy / REACH”, 2002) mirrors the town’s belief in including everyone. Despite the exceptional growth within the city over the past few years, the school district is determined to meet the needs of its student population. One way in which PISD plans to ensure all of its students receive an equitable education, is through its adoption and implementation of the Response to Intervention (RtI) program.

Every school district has board meetings throughout the school year. Unfortunately, many parents, community members, & school personnel do not attend such important meetings because they don’t realize or understand the importance of such board meetings or how informative they can be. According to Kankakee School District (2017), the Kankakee School District Board of Education is composed of seven elected members, who were elected by the citizens of Kankakee to serve a four-year term that do not receive no salary for they services, are committed to ensuring a quality of educational excellence that will enhance the opportunities and challenges facing today’s student and additional responsibilities that board members include are selection of the District superintendent, developing general polices according to wishes of the community and requirements of law, hiring school personnel based upon recommendation of the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel, adopts salary schedules, approves funds to finance school operations, must adopt and review the annual operating budget for the District, and setting the property tax levy to produce adequate funds to meet the District’s financial needs ranks among the responsibilities of the Board of Education (Retrieved from https://www.ksd111.org/domain/68). For this paper, the Kankakee School District board meeting will be used, information learned from board meeting, use of

I had a difficult time deciding on the organizational structure of Accounting and Finance without understanding the full scope of this department but I decided on three additional positions set to include: another Receivable Clerk, another Payable Clerk, and a second Financial Analyst. The Analysts will split the tasks of forecasting, budgeting, trends, data analytics, cost analysis, and organizational data requests. The analysts will assist with

Money is the key to success or not. In doing so, I learned that creating a budget is a two year long process. California’s budget actually exceeds the federal budget, spending over $100 billion a year (Castaneda 2017). With that, most of the revenue comes from our state tax when we pay for products and individual income taxes. Like the education district, the state budget goes along the state economy. In doing so, the process takes a while starting with April where the administrative departments prepare budgetary requests. In May, agencies prepare preliminary program budget where in July-August the department of finance and governor issue policy direction. Throughout the months of September and November, the Department of Finance reviews the proposals of the agencies as well as the Commission on State Finance and experts forecast revenues (Field 2013). At this point, the next year begins with Governor submitting budget to legislature which follows into February as the legislative analyst publish its findings. In doing so the next few months, the legislative branch conducts hearing, committees work out compromise, and by June the budget is signed by the Governor (Castaneda

Currently, D.C. has been on a national scope for their intense corruption in the handling and management of finances; falsified graduation rates; and the clogged competitive lottery process. Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has witnessed the outrage of the community in respect to Antwan Wilson, chancellor of D.C. schools, using his influences to bypass the city’s lottery system and place his child at Wilson High School. This instance of corruption along with the “FBI, U.S. Education Department, and D.C. Office of the Inspector General investigating the school system” would influence her to support the use of auditing (Jamison and Nirappil, 2018).Moreover, this provision is directed to allocate taxpayers local funds to the appropriate places,

In a time of financial hard ships, balancing a districts budget has become increasingly difficult. As a school board member for the Peoria School district it is important and crucial to effective budget decision making to be educated on the school districts budget design and delegated responsibilities within the system. These decisions need to be made based on the protection of public funds and property. “The legal responsibility for such protection rests solely with the board of education in each school district” (Brimley, Verstengen, Garfield, 2012, pg. 332). Areas vital to this effective decision making of a board member are account practices, superintendent and board member responsibilities for a building budget, key terminology, how

Schools have a number of various sources. The primary sources are federal, state, and local funding. The majority of funding comes from state and local sources; whereas a small percent (usually 9-12%) comes from the federal level. The method by which schools receive funding is through the taxation process. At the state level, taxes are levied from taxpayers, both corporate and citizens via sales and income tax. At the local level, school funding comes from property taxes. Let’s explore the how the various sources of school funding. “According to the National Center for Education Statistics, state and local funding accounts for approximately 93 percent of education expenditures” (Woodruff, 2008, ¶ 2). Let’s examine these various sources of revenue and funding and different formulas for allocation along with their pros and cons.

School board members are responsible for policy and budget decisions that determine the level of support for facility maintenance, and improvement and renovation. Their decisions clearly affect the quality and condition of the schools in their districts. These decisions are made in conjunction with competing demands for limited fiscal resources needed to address all school issues. School board members are instrumental in maintaining the quality and condition of the public schools in a responsible and timely manner. Grover, State Superintendent of Wisconsin, said it this way (EWA, 1989): The state has been spending more money to provide safe housing for its 5,600 prisoners than it has for its 760,000 school children. We build golf courses and jails by fiat, but we put our children in storefronts and church basements. . . . That says a lot about what’s wrong with America. (p. 2) Ambach, Executive Director of The Council of Chief State School Officers, was quoted in the Schoolhouse In The Red study (AASA, 1992): If national goals for student performance are to be met, our students must have learning environments that support high productivity. Investments in high-tech plants and overcoming the neglect of maintenance is essential for a 21st century opportunity to learn for every student in America. (p.7) Finally, an interview in the February 1997 American School and University Journal included comments from Hawkins,