Resource Allocation

Catalog description

This course will prepare aspiring leaders to manage the resources available to schools and make thoughtful, principled, research-based decisions about those resources. Aspiring leaders will assess a school's allocation of resources (time, people and money), analyze the alignment between that allocation and the school's goals or mission, and study both the process and outcomes of leaders' decisions when faced with scarce resources. Leaders will study the sources of revenue accessible to both private and public schools and the expenditures common in schools. Through this work, leaders will also develop the financial vocabulary necessary to describe the condition of their organization and provide oversight of a school budget.