This course explores how schoool administrators can allocate limited resources to achieve prioritized goals and objectives. Emphasis is placed on both the understanding of the methods of financing public schools, as well as the basic overview of budgeting and evaluation principles that are needed to ensure that resources are allocated with optimum efficiency and effectiveness. Candidates explore the primary revenue sources for Pre-K-12 education and the mechanism for distributing revenues to individual school districts at the state and local level. Prerequisite: None. (F;S;SS)