Technology & School Budget

Sunday, November 30, 2008

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I work in Southeast school district is the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) is the fourth-largest school in the United States. Since then, it is impossible to estimate all expenditure needs perfectly during the budget-based process, it is important to continually monitor revenues and expenditures to make sure they are in line with school based budget projections. I am in the field of education and computer technology in support of its vision the MDCPS pursues the highest standards in academic achievement and organizational performance. Therefore, to help build a better foundation for higher performance across the districts, the MDCPS decided to deploy an enterprise planning solution for its 150 school administrative support sites. Across the district, MDCPS personnel report that increased use of assessment system was specifically designed to offer teachers a resource to think about, discuss, and improve classroom learning. Provided staff with support via inservice workshops and one-to-one instruction to facilitate their use of computers for classroom management and for implementation of curriculum by increasing computer use by staff from 7 to 25 teachers, and Computer Lab use by staff from 30 hours to 236 hours a year.

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools, through its Office of Bilingual Education, ensures that Florida is one of the world where people of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds interact, live, and work bilingual students receive challenging, rigorous and meaningful instruction in their first and second language and are held to the same high standards as their fluent English-speaking peers. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools provides a transitional bilingual education program to students whose first language is Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. However, the MDCPS provide a sheltered English Program (English as Second Language) in grades K-12 for low incidence language groups known as the Multicultural Program. Furthermore, the MDCPS offer a special literacy program for limited English proficient students in grades 5-12, due to involuntary interrupted schooling in their countries of origin and who lack basic native language and English literacy skills.

The School-based budgeting analysis administrative process is outlined, as is its objective, to maximize the discretionary funds available for education purposes. Thus the model of budgeting analysis shows how to examine policy issues in Miami and the central office monitors the retention limit and funding formulas. the people of authority to be granted to the school-site agent, school-based budgeting accountability and transparency have the merits of a cost-benefit analysis, the benefits of school-based budgeting, and the monetary costs associated with the school system discussed earlier. The program based on budget analysis presents a different view of how funds are allocated.

additionally, knowing what people buy with their dollar, it is equally important as knowing how much money the district has to spend with the dollars. The program-based on budget analysis shows the allocation of funds and personnel across broad programmatic areas; such as regular education, vocational education, special education, bilingual education, and school support services. Thus, this is the view of the budget analysis, which allows readers to determine how people match available funding to services provided.

The Florida Department of Education will release 2004 School Grades and AYP mean (Adequate Yearly Progress) designations under NCLB in the coming weeks. Last year, most Florida schools needed to make progress in at least one area under the federal law. In addition to school grades, AYP designations, and information on options for parents, the new report card depicts a school efficiency indicator (return on investment), which relates money spent at the school-level with student performance at that school, http://www.fldoe.org. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at rosnel@nsu.nova.edu.