Budget cutting without rancor: one district's rational process for protecting spending that's close to students.
School Administrator › Vol. 60 Nbr. 7, August 2003
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Budget cutting without rancor: one district's rational process for protecting spending that's close to students.
How should you reduce your school department's budget by $8 million? First, pray you don't have to. If that doesn't work, do what Quincy did.
The Quincy, Mass., Public Schools serve a blue-collar city of 90,000, located 12 miles south of Boston. The district includes 18 schools that house 9,000 students and 1,200 staff. In FY '02, the school district budget was just under $63 million. In March 2002, Quincy's superintendent and school committee requested $67 million for the following year. Such an increase was steep, but could be supported. All 16 of the district's collective bargaining ...See the full content of this document
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