While it is true that the schools feel shortchanged in the budget process, the schools are far from poor.
While this technique could be viewed as a logical, appropriate way out of the intractable logjam in Albany, some say it allows lawmakers to sidestep major problems, like the issue of increasing aid to improve New York City schools or even overhauling the budget process itself.
Make sure to be involved in the budget process of the school.
In the Navajo Nation, Deborah Jackson-Dennison, the superintendent of the Window Rock Unified School District, is in the process of reducing the school budget to about $17 million, from about $24 million, absorbing a cut from sequestration as well as from the local government.
The board, removed from the city's budget process, had little control over school finances.
The training sessions include monitoring school district finances; understanding financial status reports; the budget process; and the prevention of fraud, waste and the misuse of district resources.
Unsure about whether the state will come through with what it owes the district, school officials decided to wait and watch the budget process take shape in Springfield over the next few weeks.
He led the Legislature in overhauling the state's much-criticized workers' compensation program; he negotiated a new formula for school aid; he persuaded lawmakers to revamp the budget process to make it more transparent and efficient.
Jill S. Levy, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, said part of the problem was that before Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg centralized the school system, the city's 32 community school districts, now basically defunct, controlled discretionary money that could be given to schools with special needs not addressed by the general budget process.
For teachers and students in private schools (and a lot of suburban schools), that demand would be redundant: respect already surrounds them, in the palpable form of better facilities, smaller classes, and a budget process that permits an orderly opening of school.
