Funding Allocation and Accountability
As a leader in your district, it is important to have a firm grasp of the factors that affect fund allocation in your school district as well as the ways in which school districts use those allocations. The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate your school’s or district’s plan for allocating funds.
Note: Be sure to incorporate the funding allocation information you discussed with your district’s business manager into this assignment.
In your paper:
• Analyze your district’s chart of accounts by functional area, including the spending focus of each area.
• Analyze the per-pupil expenditures, state of facilities, and financial health of the district.
• Describe the software program and types of data used to demonstrate accuracy and accountability in how funds are employed in the district.
• Evaluate your school district’s criteria for determining the appropriate use of school funds. Include federal, state, and foundation funds in your evaluation.
• Evaluate your district’s plan for demonstrating accountability in the appropriate and wise use of funding.
• Reflect on what you learned from the interview with the business manager and the implications your learning has for you as an aspiring leader.
• Transcribe your interview as an appendix to the assignment. Include both the questions asked and the responses.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA format: Resources and citations must be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length of paper: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
Resources
• Example Chart of Accounts [PDF].
• General Guidelines for Conducting Research Interviews.
• National Center for Education Statistics.
• Evidence and APA.
