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"Insights, lessons, and suggestions that can help schools spend their funds effectively, [focusing] on solutions--ways school systems can prioritize and make tradeoffs that can help them spend their dollars more effectively--and more general lessons for how leaders can and should think about these issues ... When it comes to school spending, getting more bang for the buck is ... a complicated calculus of student needs, available resources, political realities, and local context. That's why school spending should never be a mechanical task, but an educational exercise--and an opportunity to discover more promising paths forward"--
About the author
Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, author of the popular
Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up," and coeditor of
Common Core Meets Education Reform and
Private Enterprise and Public Education.
Brandon L. Wright is the editorial director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Summary
How might school funds be spent more effectively in today's uncertain environment? This up-to-date volume explores a range of ideas to help schools and districts better manage their resources. This is a valuable guide for how to spend budgets wisely and well.
