Fairfax County Public Schools: Rethinking Budget Rationalization

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Imagine pondering what your district operations would look like under a set of worsening scenarios: What would happen if the budget were to decrease next year by 2%? What if it were to decrease by more than 5%? Even worse, what if there were a decline of 10% or more? What would we do differently and how would we make those tough choices? How would the community react? How about our staff? Would our Board hold together through the difficult decisions? Would chaos ensue?

This case study unpacks the process that Fairfax County Public Schools underwent to reconfigure its budgetary process.

This case study originally appeared in the Winter 2010 edition of the District Management Journal.

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