Georgia
Issues in Budgeting and School Accounts

Interview your mentor and discuss the school
(building level) budgeting process. Be sure to mention the question below:

How
will local boards compile all of the student and employee data required to
implement the accountability requirements of state and federal law?

Mr. T’s has little
input on the budgeting process and where funds are allocated.  He is sent a spreadsheet with amounts
and categories that identify how much he can spend and where he can spend
it.  The information required for
funding is calculated using FTE (full time equivalent).  The FTE is figured based on the number
of students as well as other factors such as type of student (sped, regular ed).  Based on
FTE, funds are distributed to each school.