Afton Partners has anonymized and shared a simple 12-month cash flow projection tool, allowing school networks (like the charter management organization [CMO] highlighted in this case) to project cash every month by leveraging the organization’s total annual budget and input assumptions on cash-flow timing.
This simple 12-month cashflow projection tool allows charter management organizations to project cash on a monthly basis by leveraging the organization-total annual budget and input assumptions on the timing of cashflows.
This guide intended to assist districts in rethinking traditional budgetary approaches in order to find possible ways to fund technology initiatives by repurposing existing funding sources. The paper offers step-by-step advice through investigation, planning, and implementation, as well as numerous district case studies.
A report from CRPE that takes a systematic look at costs associated with implementing personalized learning schools, how leaders of these schools choose to allocate their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable on public dollars. CRPE studied 16 charter elementary and secondary schools that had received financial support through the Gates Foundation’s Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC).
A slide deck (PDF) that explores key financial planning steps for funding blended learning at scale, including key cost variables, cost drivers, and funding sources.
An Excel worksheet for districts to use to calculate a multi-year estimate of the cost to scale blended learning.
A five-step guide showing school districts how to avoid getting stuck in the pilot phase, and successfully budget for scaling blended learning.
Chiefs for Change championed a provision in ESSA that will provide SEAs and LEAs with resources to support Direct Student Services (DSS). This is possible through a 3% discretionary state reservation of Title I funding. This will allow states to work with districts to re-think the use of a portion of Title I funds to provide innovative approaches to bringing value and service to educators, families, students, and taxpayers.
