Introduction Coming to Grips with Reality How to Cut Costs without Cutting Essential Programs and Services How to Accomplish as Much or More with Less Staff How to Get the Biggest Bang for Your Program Buck How to Get Everyone Involved in Fiscal Fitness How to Find, Raise and Attract Money in Hard Times How to Make the Most of Time - The Resource That Keeps On Ticking More Ways to Save Time and Money Success Stories A Final Word
This is the first comprehensive guide for making the most of all school resourses - and even thriving in times of dwindling funds. This no-nonsense handbook covers every aspect of fiscal fitness for today's schools; from cutting costs without cutting essential programmes and accomplishing as much as before or more with less staff, to running a low cost, no frills activity programme and finding and raising money for your school.
Robert D. Ramsey is a lifelong educator who has served as a "leader of leaders" in three award-winning school districts in two different states. His frontline experience includes positions a teacher, counselor, assistant principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, acting superintendent, and adjunct professor. Most recently, he has served as associate superintendent in the St. Louis Park (MN) schools, where every school has been designated by the federal government as a National School of Excellence. Ramsey is now working full-time as a freelance writer in Minneapolis.