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How To Check Whether Your School Is Spending Money On Right Things?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Schooling is one of the most important things in a person’s life&period; Children learn many lessons during school time that will stay with them throughout the life&period; Many state governments spend a big portion of their annual budget on schools&period; Most of the governments fund both private and governmental schools&period; But still very few schools properly spend this money on development of students&period; Nobody knows where the money goes&period; The schools have so many small expenses that it is very difficult to keep track of the money&period; Sometimes the school administration is not able to find the source of their loss for years&period; There are also many schools that are not able to spend the money of student development due to corrupt officials&period; Many such scams have been exposed in past years&period; So&comma; if you want to know whether your school&comma; your kid’s school or the school you work for is spending money on the right things you need to look for a certain things&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>What to look for&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The expenditure at schools is categorised into four different types&period; These are instructional expenses&comma; student and staff support&comma; administrational expenses and the other expenditures&period; Instructional expenses include teacher’s salaries&comma; school supplies&comma; etc&period; Student and staff support includes the money spent on the physical and psychological wellbeing of students and staff members like guidance&comma; therapy&comma; counselling&comma; etc&period; Administrational expenses are the ones on the board of directors&comma; office of the principal&comma; central office&comma; etc&period; Finally the others category includes all the things that are left like salaries of genitor&comma; driver&comma; cafeteria worker&comma; security guard&comma; etc and the money spend on utilities and maintenance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There are some state level and national level organisations&comma; both governmental and private&comma; release reports about how much the schools are spending and on what things&period; While most of these reports are very complicated&comma; they are decoded for the understanding of regular population by the people like Joseph Tramontana&period; These reports have the information about the average overall expenditure and category wise expenditures of all the schools in the country&period; Some reports also have the state wise average expenditures&period; For example&comma; according to the report of 2006 by United States Census Bureau the national average was &dollar;8&period;287 per student per year&period; It might seem very less but there are schools which are spending even lesser than that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So compare your school’s overall expenditure and category wise expenditures with the national and the state average to get an idea of where is the money going at your school&period; And if after comparing you find out that your school is spending less than the average on instructional expenditures than it is a red flag&period; You can question the school officials like principal or superintendent about it&period; Even if your school is spending equal to the average&comma; you should look into the programs in which the school is claiming to spend that money&period; In these cases you can’t be careful enough&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>How to Stay Aware&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There is a lot of information on school finance and school funding on the internet&period; You will find many blogs and websites regarding the same if you search&period; While most of these websites have correct and useful data but the best person to learn from is <b>Joseph Tramontana<&sol;b>&period; He has been working in area of school financials from a long time&period; He also runs websites and blogs to make the regular people aware of the system&period; You can go to his blog to read the posts about how the system works&period; You can also ask questions regarding any doubt or confusion you are having in understanding the financials of your school&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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