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Circling the drain: Content analysis of cost reduction documents from financially exigent school districts in the state of Texas.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Circling the drain: Content analysis of cost reduction documents from financially exigent school districts in the state of Texas./
Author:	Rees, Reagan Carter.
Description:	157 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0837.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Education, Finance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3124511

Circling the drain: Content analysis of cost reduction documents from financially exigent school districts in the state of Texas.
Rees, Reagan Carter.

Circling the drain: Content analysis of cost reduction documents from financially exigent school districts in the state of Texas. - 157 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0837.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Texas Tech University, 2004.

The problem with K--12 public school funding in the United States is that schools are expected to do more---educate more students, increase performance standards, offer more diverse and needs appropriate curricula and programs---with less funding (Rothstein, 2002). While teachers scramble to meet new ambitious academic targets, school and district spending patterns have changed little in the past three decades (Miles, 2001). As a result, in the state of Texas, about 100 school districts are 'circling the drain', and there are many other districts facing financial exigency and a lack of funding (Albanese, 2002). This study analyzed the content of twenty-four Texas school districts' financial exigency cost reduction documents.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Education, Finance.

Circling the drain: Content analysis of cost reduction documents from financially exigent school districts in the state of Texas.
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520 $a These districts requested assistance from the Texas Education Agency in the form of advice and/or delayed recapture of state funding. The only requirement to receive this assistance was the formulation of a district-wide cost reduction document to reconcile expenditures with revenues in an attempt to thwart financial disaster. The literature review suggests that due to a general lack of knowledge, many cost reduction methods utilized by school districts are 'quick fixes', not cost effective, unrealistic, and often mirror state and federal surgery with a blunt scalpel (Cavanagh, 2002.) Further, this should come as no surprise when one considers that, in general, public school finance is one of the most discussed and least understood aspects of public education (Odden & Picus, 1992).
520 $a To ascertain knowledge of factors associated with cost reduction methodologies utilized by Texas school districts in financial exigency, a content analysis of cost reduction documents submitted to the Texas Education Agency by twenty-four, randomly selected school districts was conducted. The cost reduction methodologies were analyzed to determine how school districts in declared states of financial exigency cut their budgets, and to determine if factors emerged that were associated with certain school district characteristics. Further, the factors and the patterns which emerged from how school districts in financial exigency cut their budgets was analyzed to determine if a 'circling the drain' theory could be identified to diagnosis early warning signs of school district financial exigency.
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