During my assignment for this week,
I chose a book entitled To What Ends and
By What Means, edited
by Gloria M. Rodriguez and R. Anthony Rolle. It was very difficult to find an e-book that at anything to do with my
topic, as it is somewhat specific. This book doesn’t analyze the costs of
education, but it analyzes what a community needs in its schools based on its
socioeconomic status. With this analysis, it determines where the budget should
be allocated in order to provide a beneficial education to students in certain
communities.
The knowledge I gained about my
topic is that it takes further analysis of what a school really needs for effective education of its
students, rather than just putting a budget towards certain costs. It is not as
simple as teachers get paid X amount and supplies cost Y amount, so X+Y equals
the cost of running a school. It is a matter of money being allocated correctly
towards certain things and having the funds to do so.
A really cool search strategy that I
found to be helpful is adding an asterisk to the end of a search term. For
example, I would search “budget*” and the results would contain “budget”,
“budgeting”, “budgets”, etc. It seemed really helpful that the search engine
did this for me, because that way I didn’t have to search for different words.
The difficulty I had during my search experience is that
there is a lack of books related to my specific topic of educational budgeting.
Much of the content that is related to my topic is legislature and news
articles.
What I’d like to find out as I continue researching my
topic is the rough percentages of where different parts of the budget go (i.e.
salaries, supplies, technology). I have heard that too much money goes to
administrators compared to other aspects of a school and its district.
Rodriguez, G. M., & Rolle, R. A.
(2007). To What Ends and By What Means?: The Social Justice
Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy. New York:
Routledge.
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