Start Date: 4/3/2024 8:30 AM EDT
End Date: 4/3/2024 3:30 PM EDT
Venue Name: Berks County Intermediate Unit 14
Location:
1111 Commons Blvd.
Reading, PA United States 19612
Organization Name:
PASA and PASBO
Contact:
Register now: This free workshop is limited to 100 participants!
Membership to PASA or PASBO is required to attend.
A joint PASA/PASBO budget and school finance workshop designed specifically to help school district leaders connect the dots of their budgets by understanding their past, present, and future funding impacts and practices.
Session Description:
This no-cost workshop is designed to encourage joint attendance by Superintendents and their CFO/Business Manager or other critical leadership staff. Participants will spend a full day discussing how to look at their school district budget to drive more effective multi-fiscal year planning. The program will include diving into the details of the Basic Education Funding and Special Education Funding and examining school district expenditure growth over time. Participants will be provided with tools and resources to map out strategies for making more accurate and thoughtful short and long-term budget decisions.
Additional topics to be discussed include the ESSER era unwind, fund balances and reserves, infrastructure needs, expenditure mandates and educational choice, resource and staff planning, as well as overarching insights on the BEF Commission’s recommendations, the school funding lawsuit, and the Governor’s proposed 2024-25 budget.
Session Schedule:
Check-in for Workshop...........................8:30 a.m.
Program..................................................9:00 a.m.
Program concludes.................................3:30 p.m.
Includes continental breakfast and lunch.