District Financial Leadership Today

Stephen Coffin is a Ph.D. candidate in education at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University; teaches school finance as an adjunct professor for Montclair State University and as a part time lecturer for Rutgers University; teaches school and higher education finance and economics as an adjunct instructor for Fordham University; has earned an MBA and MPA; and focuses on education finance and policy, charter schools, community economic development, school business administration, and equal educational opportunity and equity. He is the author or editor for several education-focused articles, chapters and books. Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, Education Administration and Public Policy, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University; having taught at University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College, after receiving his doctorate at the University of Chicago with Donald A. Erickson, as his mentor. Cooper has written 35 books on education politics and policy, including The Handbook of Education Politics and Policy, in two editions with Lance D. Fusarelli and James Cibulka; served as President of the Politics of Education Association and a founding member of Private School Research Association; and received the Jay D. Scribner Award for Mentoring and the UCEA.

• Foreword: Philip H. Nisonoff, Ed.D. Introduction to School District Financial LeadershipChapter 1: “N.A.P.E.R.R.” Steps in a Budget Model and Process Chapter 2: Enrollment: Students Drive the “Budget Bus” (co-authored by William Hartman, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University, and Robert Schoch, Ph.D. candidate Penn State University)Chapter 3: Personnel: Education is a People EnterpriseChapter 4: Special Education: Special Program Needs Budgeting Chapter 5: State Education Aid: How to Budget and Manage State FundingChapter 6: Budgeting and Managing Federal Aid for Schools Chapter 7: Budgeting and Managing Local RevenuesChapter 8: Movements to Privatize District Funding in the U.S.A. and U.K. Chapter 9: Managing School District’s Funding Programs Now: Quality Education for All About the Authors

Effective school district financial leadership is critical today because schools must be both more productive and more equitable in the learning opportunities they provide our students. This stimulating volume clearly explains these ramifications and offers cogent strategies to address the financial challenges our schools face.