For starters, this week’s research was tough. My topic is specific and finding a peer-reviewed article on
educational budgeting in California was not easy.
However, the article I found this week gave me a good insight to
an actual school district and their financial problems. It was a fiscal
sustainability investigation on the El Rancho Unified School District. The
article also described what caused the problems and the things that were
happening to improve them. Also, it gave me further proof that there are big budgeting problems in much of
California’s public school system.
The main problem I had with researching is that I came to a lot
of dead ends. The problem seemed to be that the keywords I used in my search
were too specific. So, I used less keywords, then narrowed down my search using
the subjects on the sidebar. This seemed to be much more effective, because it
narrowed the search down to what I needed, without being too specific.
Hello again! It looks you have gotten some interesting information from all of your research that's awesome! I feel like I started out with an idea of what I thought would be the answer and now my knowledge on my research question is becoming much clearer. I like your technique for searching in a way that is not too specific. I have run into that problem as well. Sometimes it feels like my search is either to specific or not specific enough. How big is the deficit in the budgeting problems that California is having? Nice research I look forward to seeing the progress you make in a couple weeks. Have a great night!
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