MSBO’s Executive Director David Martell announces the March winner of the MSBO Annual Conference drawing; talks about the Michigan Senate’s version of the 2010-11 School Aid Budget and provides results of MSBO’s annual budget survey. Annual budget survey results are listed below the video.
Hard to believe, but it's been a decade since MSBO first published the Facilities Benchmarking Survey. It is very interesting to see the changes that have occurred in school facilities operations since the first report.
April 27-29, 2010 • Amway Grand Plaza
MSBO’s 72nd Annual Conference & Exhibit Show is the best professional development value available to Michigan School Business Officials and vendors who provide us products and services.
As spring approaches, so does that never-ending line of companies wanting to sell natural gas or electricity for next year. It seems like every year more and more companies “pop-up.”
Michigan's school funding system is failing. It needs to be reformed. Since the inception of the Proposal A school funding system, Michigan’s economy has changed, students have changed and the world has changed.
I came across an article on the Internet recently that originally appeared in USA Today on September 16, 2003. The title of the article was “U.S. tops the world in school spending but not test scores”. The article pointed out that the U.S spends more public and private money on education than other major countries.
As schools continue to struggle with balancing our budgets, the pressures of consolidation and collaboration push us to become creative to “reimagine” the educational system for K-12 students.
MSBO’s Executive Director David Martell announces the winner of the February MSBO Annual Conference drawing; talks about MDE’s Guidelines for Budget and Salary/Compensation Transparency Reporting and the Governor’s state budget presentation to the Legislature scheduled for February 11.
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