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. David G. Martinez, 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. David 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
