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SB 585 Data-based management system required in school divisions.

Introduced by: Warren E. Barry | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Data-based management system required in school divisions. Requires Board of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Information Technology, to select and require each school division to utilize an existing data-based management system that provides accurate accounting of subclassifications of expenditures of school funds for any expenditure categories identified by the Board as appropriate for activity-based budgeting analyses. The Board is already required to establish a modern system of accounting and to designate classifications of expenditures for budgeting. For the purposes of this provision, the Board's subclassifications may include, but need not be limited to, special education, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), food services, maintenance, and transportation. The data-based management system must be utilized statewide in order to (i) ensure accountability for school funds, (ii) provide the General Assembly and the taxpayers with accurate comparisons of how state funds are being used in the Commonwealth's school divisions, and (iii) allow evaluation of cost effective mechanisms for containing such expenditures.


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