Know Your Statistics
By: Michael M. Adamczyk, RSBA, CFO
Assistant Superintendent, Business Services
Troy School District
President of MSBO
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.
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Funding and Privatization Concerns in the Public Schools
By: Cheryl S. Wald, CPA, CFO
Supervisor, Financial Services, Howell Public Schools
MSBO Board Member
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 Update February 2010
By: David Martell, Executive Director, MSBO
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
Following are the answers to a couple of questions MSBO Financial Strategies Conference participants asked during the questions and answers period portion of Office of Retirement Services (ORS) Director Phil Stoddard’s presentation.
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Hunger Doesn’t Take A Summer Vacation
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. Read more
Is Your Data Current in the Educational Entity Master (EEM)
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.
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ASBO offers Special Membership–Preparing the next generation of school business officials
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. Read more
Mark Your Calendar
EPA Enacted Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule Requires Specialized Training
MSBO is now offering training that will certify workers in compliance with the recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enacted Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (RR&P) Rule. Read more
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