CETL #9: Business with 100%
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Policies - answer Principles or rules intended to shape decisions and actions
and that provide the framework for the function of the organization. Policies
are expressed in broad terms and answer "what?" and "why?"
Procedures - answer Identify how the organization implements policies.
Procedures are expressed in specific behavioral or operational terms and
answer "how?" and "who?" and "when?"
EPEAT - answer Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, is an
easy-to-use online tool helping institutional purchasers select and compare
computer desktops, laptops, and monitors based on their environmental
attributes.
Seven characteristics of high-performance learning: - answer Autonomous
performance, Active soliciting of input and feedback, Future orientation, Self-
directed development, Agile alignment, Linking learning and practical
experience, Active collaboration
Formula grants - answer These use a formula to allocate funds to districts or
local education agencies (LEAs); examples are Title I, Title II Teacher Quality,
and IDEA Special Education
Formula/competitive grants - answer these funds are allocated by the U.S.
Department of Education (USDOE) by formula to state education agencies
(SEAs) and then competitively to LEAs; examples include Reading First and
21stCentury After School
, Competitive grants - answer these funds are allocated competitively by the
USDOE to eligible organizations or entities, including primarily SEAs and
LEAs; examples include charter schools, magnet schools, and advanced
placement programs.
Chart of Accounts - answer System of accounting records aligned to the
district's business that includes ledger account names and accompanying
numbers showing classifications and sub-classifications.
Line item budgeting - answer "traditional," budgeting as "a technique in
which line items, or objects of expenditures-e.g., personnel, supplies,
contractual services, and capital outlays-are the focus of analysis,
authorization, and control"
Function/object budgeting. - answer Most districts use function/object
budgeting, since it organizes spending around the basic functions of the
system, such as instruction, student support, operations, administration, and
transportation
Zero based budgeting (ZBB) - answer ZBB began with the assumption that
the school system starts out yearly with a "clean slate." Thus, each function,
program, and agency has to justify its expenditures annually, relating all
costs to system goals and objectives to avoid habitual spending. Because
Program planning budgeting systems (PPBS) - answer PPBS would require
school districts to spell out their mission and goals, lay out alternatives to
reach these objectives, attribute costs to each choice, analyze the costs,
select the best option, and then build the budget around this outcome, and
finally feed data back to adjust the costs to the results
Site-based (school-site) budgeting (SBB) - answer -SBB encourages, if not
requires, decision?makers in each school to examine their programs and to
set their budgets to meet their particular needs as part of the process of
shared decision?making
correct answers already
graded A+
Policies - answer Principles or rules intended to shape decisions and actions
and that provide the framework for the function of the organization. Policies
are expressed in broad terms and answer "what?" and "why?"
Procedures - answer Identify how the organization implements policies.
Procedures are expressed in specific behavioral or operational terms and
answer "how?" and "who?" and "when?"
EPEAT - answer Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, is an
easy-to-use online tool helping institutional purchasers select and compare
computer desktops, laptops, and monitors based on their environmental
attributes.
Seven characteristics of high-performance learning: - answer Autonomous
performance, Active soliciting of input and feedback, Future orientation, Self-
directed development, Agile alignment, Linking learning and practical
experience, Active collaboration
Formula grants - answer These use a formula to allocate funds to districts or
local education agencies (LEAs); examples are Title I, Title II Teacher Quality,
and IDEA Special Education
Formula/competitive grants - answer these funds are allocated by the U.S.
Department of Education (USDOE) by formula to state education agencies
(SEAs) and then competitively to LEAs; examples include Reading First and
21stCentury After School
, Competitive grants - answer these funds are allocated competitively by the
USDOE to eligible organizations or entities, including primarily SEAs and
LEAs; examples include charter schools, magnet schools, and advanced
placement programs.
Chart of Accounts - answer System of accounting records aligned to the
district's business that includes ledger account names and accompanying
numbers showing classifications and sub-classifications.
Line item budgeting - answer "traditional," budgeting as "a technique in
which line items, or objects of expenditures-e.g., personnel, supplies,
contractual services, and capital outlays-are the focus of analysis,
authorization, and control"
Function/object budgeting. - answer Most districts use function/object
budgeting, since it organizes spending around the basic functions of the
system, such as instruction, student support, operations, administration, and
transportation
Zero based budgeting (ZBB) - answer ZBB began with the assumption that
the school system starts out yearly with a "clean slate." Thus, each function,
program, and agency has to justify its expenditures annually, relating all
costs to system goals and objectives to avoid habitual spending. Because
Program planning budgeting systems (PPBS) - answer PPBS would require
school districts to spell out their mission and goals, lay out alternatives to
reach these objectives, attribute costs to each choice, analyze the costs,
select the best option, and then build the budget around this outcome, and
finally feed data back to adjust the costs to the results
Site-based (school-site) budgeting (SBB) - answer -SBB encourages, if not
requires, decision?makers in each school to examine their programs and to
set their budgets to meet their particular needs as part of the process of
shared decision?making