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Student-Based Budgeting

VUE Number 29, Fall 2010

Allocating budgets to schools based on students instead of staff can create a more equitable and rational allocation of funds among schools with differing needs.

• VUE Number 29
  Full issue PDF [48 pages]
• Allocating Funds Based on Student and School Needs
  by Philip Gloudemans
   Article PDF [4 pages] |  Read preface
• Equity and Student-Based Budgeting
  by Ellen Foley, Karen Hawley Miles, and Marguerita Roza
   Article PDF [8 pages] |  Read excerpt
• Budgeting to Support Student Achievement: 
New Strategies for Central Office
  by Jason Willis and Matt Hill
   Article PDF [8 pages] |  Read excerpt
• A Principal’s Perspective: Empowerment for Schools
  by Matthew Hornbeck
   Article PDF [5 pages] |  Read excerpt
• Student-Based Budgeting in Tough Times: 
The New York City Experience
  by Ellen Foley
   Article PDF [9 pages] |  Read excerpt
• Beyond Funding Formulas: District Transformation through Weighted Student Funding and Strategic Decentralization
  by Naomi Calvo and Karen Hawley Miles
   Article PDF [9 pages] |  Read excerpt