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Resources for educational leaders on district and school budgets and financial operations.

November 12, 2021
AASA Learning Recovery & Redesign Guidance

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

Provides overarching guidance for you to consider on an ongoing basis when determining the best next steps for your recovery and redesign plans, including the ARP use-of-funds plans being implemented in your district.
November 10, 2021
How to Optimize Costs and Resources to Re-Invest in Learning

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

A free webinar on maximizing district procurement capabilities and identifying opportunities to save time and money.
October 20, 2021
More Than a Test Score: Leveraging Federal Dollars to Support Innovation in SEL Investments

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, Finance & Budgets, Social Emotional Learning

A thought-provoking discussion on how schools can use federal American Rescue Plan dollars as a down payment on an enduring investment in Social and Emotional Learning.
October 01, 2021
Containing Group Health Insurance Costs

Type: Article

Topics: District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets, Health & Wellness

Applying due diligence when negotiating the district’s employee benefits.
September 01, 2021
School Finance 101 in Four Short Videos

Type: Article

Topics: Finance & Budgets, Technology & AI

Step-by-step visuals inform the public on a school district’s spending plan.
August 01, 2021
Wise Spending of Your Federal Relief Funds

Type: Article

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, Communications & Public Relations, District & School Operations, Equity, Finance & Budgets

The key questions to raise when planning your school district’s use of federal relief funds under the American Rescue Plan.
August 01, 2021
Using Evidence on Cost-Effectiveness

Type: Article

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

The influx of federal dollars through the American Rescue Plan warrants careful attention by district leaders to higher-value investments
August 01, 2021
Federal Support That Enables ‘Building Back Better’

Type: Article

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

Creating a new world for K-12 schooling with the infusion of new dollars.
August 01, 2021
Prioritizing Classrooms in Our District Spending

Type: Article

Topics: District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

How does an administrative position get through the hiring freeze process?
August 01, 2021
Salary Shortchange

Type: Article

Topics: Board Relations, District & School Operations, Ethics, Finance & Budgets

After the school board increases a finance director’s salary to attract candidates, it asks the superintendent to reduce the offer once a finalist is named.
June 29, 2021
Meeting the Moment: Leveraging Federal Relief to Grow Community Schools

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

Learn why every school should be a community school and how the American Rescue Plan and other streams of funding offer an unprecedented opportunity to start-up, sustain and scale community schools.
June 23, 2021
AASA Leader to Leader Series: Reimagining Public Education

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: Curriculum & Assessment, District & School Operations, Equity, Finance & Budgets, Health & Wellness, Leadership Development, Social Emotional Learning

Opportunities for AASA members and staff to share ideas and helpful strategies on behalf of the students and communities they serve during these very challenging times.
March 01, 2016
Doing the Most With What They Have

Type: Article

Topics: Finance & Budgets, Rural Communities

Every highly productive rural school system has found its own way to success
December 01, 2018
The Point of High School Athletics

Type: Article

Topics: Finance & Budgets

TWO YEARS AGO, I left a high school stadium having watched a dramatic state semifinal shootout involving our Novi High School girls’ soccer team. We lost. Our girls were heartbroken.
February 01, 2016
Differentiated Instruction… From the Business Office?

Type: Article

Topics: Finance & Budgets

The finance leader of suburban district devises creative tools for overcoming public skepticism
November 01, 2018
Leveraging Federal Programs for Dual Enrollment

Type: Article

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, Finance & Budgets

State funding and support for dual and concurrent enrollment varies across the country.
May 20, 2021
How to Best Meet the Needs of Homeless Students with ARP Funds

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, Equity, Finance & Budgets

Two superintendents share bold ideas for how to use ESSER funds and targeted ARP-Homeless Children and Youth funds to assess and meet both immediate and long-term needs.
May 12, 2021
School Construction, Air Quality and Federal Funding: What Superintendents Need to Know

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets, Health & Wellness, School Safety & Cybersecurity

Advice on how to use federal funds on school construction and facility maintenance and best practices on what districts can do to improve ventilation, filtration and air cleaning strategies.
April 15, 2021
Leveraging Federal COVID Funding

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: Advocacy & Policy, District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets

Hear what federal COVID dollars can mean for your schools, how superintendents are investing these dollars and insight in how to fully leverage this significant investment to respond to COVID while addressing learning recovery.
April 14, 2021
Dos & Don'ts for COVID Testing in Schools

Type: Webinar Recording

Topics: District & School Operations, Finance & Budgets, Health & Wellness, School Safety & Cybersecurity

This webinar will introduce the Thermo Fisher - Color partnership and simplified solution that makes on site student COVID testing accessible to schools.

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