Understanding Student-based Budgeting as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity
Karen Hawley Mills, Education Resource Strategies and Marguerite Roza, University of Washington, Center for Reinventing Public Education
July 15, 2004
Karen Hawley Miles and Marguerite Roza co-authored this 33-page "working paper" that is well-summarized in its own abstract: "This paper uses a newly developed analysis tool called the student-weighted index to assess how the shift to student-based budgeting has affected the pattern of resource distribution within two districts: Houston Independent Schools and Cincinnati Public Schools. In the two districts studied, the use of staff-based budgeting resulted in varying degrees of inequitable resource allocation, while the introduction of student-based budgeting yielded significant equity gains in both districts." Though the study points to equity gains via student-based budgeting, it also explains other factors that hamper this effect and that would also need to be addressed in a thoroughly revamped district-wide budgeting system. You can find it online here.
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