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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"General fund"”.
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Factors that affect the outcome of a general fund referendum in Indiana
… resulted in sweeping reforms to education funding. These new laws coupled with a national recession resulted in many school districts not having the necessary financial resources to maintain programming and personnel consistent with their needs. With this in mind, many of these districts …
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An examination of the impact of early retirement incentives on school district financial health
<p>The combination of state controlled school funding in Michigan, rising employee costs and shrinking school enrollments have caused school districts to seek a variety of cost control measures. One of the measures frequently supported by both school districts and employee unions is the use of …
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A new reality: Funding formula changes and property tax caps and their effects on the role of the school superintendent in the state of Indiana
… discover how school superintendents were using general fund referenda to meet their school district’s operational budgets. However, after interviews began it became clear that the superintendents wanted to tell a different story and that was how the current school funding mechanism and property …
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Public-Nonprofit Partnership: A Case Study of Cobb County Government
… utilized by Cobb County government to supply funding to local nonprofit organizations. Based on interviews with department and program directors of partnering agencies, the study found that Cobb County delivers between $15 and $17 million annually to nonprofit agencies via two unique …
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The Value Of Food: A Small Rural School Cafeteria Budget Case Study
… nutrition program without encroaching on the general fund, while still serving organic, made-from-scratch meals. Current research confirms that school districts are challenged to balance the requirements of the National School Lunch Program while maintaining quality. School lunch programs, …
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Economic Analysis of State Lotteries in the United States
… 50 cents in states that deposit profits into the general fund, and by only 30 cents in states that earmark profits for areas other than education. Using a Bayesian estimation procedure for inequality restrictions in the normal linear least squares model, we find there is a high likelihood that a …
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The prima facie relationship between size of assets under management and the risk-adjusted performance of South African collective investment schemes
… a collective investment scheme's (or mutual fund) size and its risk-adjusted performance but the research has produced contradictory results with no apparent consensus. Data from a sample size of 100 (one hundred) collective investment schemes in the Association for Savings and Investments …
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The effects of cost, income, and socio-economic variables on student scholastic aptitude scores
… is not dependent upon the amount spent in total General Fund expenditures per pupil, however, an increased amount spent on instruction tends to raise SAT scores.3. A high at-risk index presence is associated with lower SAT scores whereas a low at-risk index tends to be associated with higher SAT …
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A comparative analysis of the impact of public laws 209 and 390 on Indiana textbook rental programs
… criteria and allocation of sufficient funding for total reimbursement of eligible financial assistance billings from individual school corporations, the financial assistance portion of P.L. 390 is an improvement over P.L. 209.4. Because of the specific delineation of textbook rental fee …
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
<p>The general fund of material on the life and work of Charles Dickens leaves much to be desired in quality though little to be questioned in quantity. Until as late as 1955 critical commentaries were brief though numerous, and the only really outstanding biography since John Forster (1872-74) is …
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Three Essays on the Management of Local Government Cash Flows
… and 2016 from a heterogeneous sample of New York general purpose governments, evidence suggests that fewer cash assets, a declining prior year budget surplus, higher proportions of federal aid, increases in salary and wages expenditures, more capital spending, as well as more use of long-term debt …