BUDGET

DEFENSE
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KELLEY OURADNIK
 Empower students with
Empower individuals to succeed enthusiasm for life and learning
Mission Statement in a changing world. Vision Statement to maximize their individual
talents and gifts.

Students learn best when they

are actively engaged in the
Beliefs A safe and physically
comfortable environment
learning process with a variety of
instructional approaches and
promotes students' learning.
when our staff maintains high
expectations for learning.
 Total District Expenditures

CURRENT
EXPENDITURES
FOR ENTIRE
DISTRICT

Salaries/Benefits Transportation Operations/Maintenance Other

 Elementary Expenditures
Salaries/Benefits

Teaching
Supplies/Books

Technology
ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL BUDGET Furnature

Travel

Fees/Professional
Development

Misc
SUSTAINABILITY

Salaries and Benefits are much of the budget.

It is essential that the district looks at sustainability

and continue this rate of employment.

It is important to recruit the best teachers and staff

THE FUTURE

Yearly and 5- year plans for: Each Year:

Technology Retain and Recruit Teachers
Curriculum
Facilities
DEVELOPMENT OF BUDGET

Historical Data • Actual Revenue and Expenditures for the past 4 years

Superintendent • Legislature

School Board • Represents community and stakeholders

• Student data to drive instruction needs

Administration • Staff input
EXAMINE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Sorenson & Goldsmith (2018) state these questions to ask to
address student achievement:
 What are the short-term and long-term impacts of conservative
 What are the most efficient methods of organizing our
budgetary funding on student achievement?
instructional programs and student-centered initiatives?
 What does the research reveal regarding current instructional
 How can classes be better scheduled—and not at the expense
programs and initiatives, and are schools still doing the same
of students?
old things the same old ways? Can improvements come with
 What are specific and effective methods of presenting fiscal constraints?
instruction in the differing subject areas?
 What are other school districts and other schools doing to be
 What classes are crucial for all graduates? more instructionally innovative yet cost effective?
 What is the value of programs such as prekindergarten,  What additional or innovative fundraising or crowdfunding
dropout prevention initiatives, and the support of late efforts can be implemented?
graduates?
 How can a school team communicate with state and federal
 What class-size capacity can be reached without negatively legislators and provide them with a clear understanding of
impacting teaching and learning? local conditions and the need for improved funding?
 How can teacher quality, student learning, and instructional pg 128-129
methodology be redefined in an era of technological norms
and advancements?
  Helps create changes and allows for a trusting relationship.

 Positives

NEEDS  Support services such as Title I, Special Education

ASSESSMENT  Technology
 Math Curriculum
SURVEY  Areas in need of improvement
 Assessments
 Professional Development in using data
 Identify the core need: What fundamental student performance
need are we focusing on, and what's our theory of change for
addressing it?
Consider a broad range of investment options: What are the
investments we currently make to address this need, and what
ROI – 5 KEY else could we do?
STEPS Define ROI metrics and gather data: What are the relative
FRANK & HOVEY returns (costs weighed against benefits) to the set of
current/potential options?;
(2014) Weigh investment options: What other factors do we need to
consider, in order to select from among the options?

Make investment decisions: How can we free resources to do

what we want to do?
ROI – 5 KEY STEPS
FRANK & HOVEY (2014)

1. Identify the core need:

 Needs Assessment Survey – School Wide

Assessments

2. Consider broad range investment options:

 Many tests are given that cost the district money

and results are not used to drive instruction
 ROI – 5 KEY STEPS
FRANK & HOVEY (2014)

3. Define ROI metrics and gather data

 Looking at removing STAR Reading and Math will save 5. Make investment decisions:
$2000 each year and lessen an assessment that is
not being used effectively
 Grant provided through Slope Bowman County
 The cost is not huge, but if the assessment is not helping
students, it is not necessary
Community Grant that allowed the purchase of
4. Weigh investment options a Reading Assessment Kit
 Kit – one-time purchase
 Investment of time

 Focus on NWEA results to drive instruction

REDUCTION IN STAFF – BCPS MASTER CONTRACT

ARTICLE III: Other Personal Matters

Reduction-In-Force
REDUCTION IN STAFF – RELEASE OF TEACHER

Following Contract Guidelines Salary and Benefits

 Reading Intervention Teacher has given a letter of

retirement read at November School Board
Meeting.
 This program is valuable to the district, but the
position will be allocated and filled by current staff
 Transfer Elementary Art Teacher to Reading Interventionist
and classroom teachers will be responsible for teaching Reading Interventionist Other Staff
art.
TECHNOLOGY

Current - District Wide Technology Proposed Cut - District Wide Technology

Budget Budget

Salaries and Benefits Repairs/Maintenance Salaries and Benefits Repairs/Maintenance

Equipment Misc Equipment Misc
Travel Software Travel Software

Cut $40,000 from Equipment

CUTTING COSTS

Furniture and Equipment Library

 The previous year the school moved towards
flexible seating. This year $17,200 was budgeted
to expand the movement.
 Holding off to expand flexible seating will save the
district.
 The actuals spent on book in the past 4 years
ranged from 14,596 to 6,586.
 With technology and eBooks becoming more
popular, cutting the library budget of books to
$1,000 will allow administration and librarian focus
on a long-range plan of how the library may evolve.
  Arrange staffing to meet the needs of students through
Reading Interventionist
 Invite volunteers to support art program

 Cutting $41,200 from the $219,050 site budget is an

BUDGET CUTS 18% cut.
 Long-range planning
 Library
 Furniture
 Technology
REFERENCES

Cuiccio C & Husby-Slater, M. (May 2018) Needs Assessment Guidebook, Supporting the Development of District and
School Needs Assessments. State Support Network.
Frank & Hovey (October 2014) Return on Investment in Education A “System-Strategy” Approach. Education Resource
Strategies Retrieved from: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED560072.pdf
Sorenson, R. D., & Goldsmith, L. M. (2018). The principal's guide to school budgeting (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:
Corwin. ISBN-13: 9781506389455