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Welcome to the February issue of the MSBO Newsletter. In this Issue In Other News
MSBO Board Rob Burgess Immediate Past President Darcie Birkett President Elect David Martell Executive Director Jeffrey P. Crouse Charlevoix-Emmet ISD Angie McArthur Engadine Consolidated Schools Mary Reynolds Farmington Public Schools Daniel Romzek Davison Community Schools Cheryl Wald Howell Public Schools Brenda Voutyras Associate Member Representative Pass it on Know anyone who might be interested in our newsletter? Click here to forward this email to up to 5 friends at once. This email was sent to [email address suppressed] |
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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.
Funding and Privatization Concerns in the Public Schools
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. Read more
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. Click to see the video. Survey Reveals Key Transportation Policy Issues  By: Tim Ammon, Management Partnership Services, Inc.The 2009 Student Transportation Benchmarking survey has been released. The report details nine key performance metrics and summarizes results by region, ridership levels, and fleet size. Districts of all types responded to the survey, including rural, urban, large, small, district owned, and contracted operations. Read more Financial Strategies Questions and Answers
Hunger Doesn’t Take A Summer Vacation
Is Your Data Current in the Educational Entity Master (EEM)
ASBO offers Special Membership–Preparing the next generation of school business officials
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By: Michael M. Adamczyk, RSBA, CFO
By: Cheryl S. Wald, CPA, CFO
By: David Martell, Executive Director, MSBO 
Following are the answers to a couple of questions 
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is looking for community sponsors to run summer food programs to prevent more than 510,000 children in Michigan from going hungry when school lunchrooms close for the summer. 
The Educational Entity Master (EEM) is a directory that contains entity codes and contact information for educational systems in the state of Michigan. Managed by the Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI), EEM data exist for public schools, nonpublic schools, intermediate schools districts and institutions of higher education. 
Happy 100 years! This year ASBO turns 100. For a century, school business officials have relied on ASBO International for the resources and knowledge to become more effective education leaders. In honor of this milestone, ASBO wants to start building for the next 100 years. 
EPA Enacted Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule Requires Specialized Training |
MICHIGAN SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIALS 1001 Centennial Way, Suite 200 |
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