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Budget Crisis Tips
Adult education budget managers are facing the
biggest challenge in memory, perhaps even including the dark days
of the late '70s and the infamous Proposition 13.
To start with, budgets must be developed for the
coming year without knowing what CAP and revenue limits will be.
There has always been uncertainty in the education budget process,
but never before has it been this epic in scope. Uncertainty or
not, budgets must be developed, and managers are using various strategies
to reduce costs by anywhere from 5% to 18%, depending on the faith
that the manager has in the benevolence of the governor and the
legislature.
Here are a few cost-reduction techniques that
have been reported to Insider:
- Reduce or cancel summer school If the school
is at or over cap by late spring, then the additional ADA is unreimbursable.
- Cancel Saturday or other classes where the
operating overhead is an additional cost.
- Calculate the real cost of offering community
interest classes, factoring in the rising cost of teacher and
support staff benefits, to ensure that community interest classes
are priced in order to support themselves.
- Use supplementary funds to the fullest extent
possible to support classes, being careful not to supplant any
ongoing or vital services.
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