Avery Ford, Chief School Financial Officer for Conecuh County School District in Alabama, chats with Jamie Rosenberg, CEO of ClassWallet, to discuss how Classwallet helps improve the workflow in his school finance department.
... Continue ReadingAt ClassWallet we streamline the tracking and distribution of education funds. Here on our blog we provide tips from financial experts to help you manage your district budget and cover financial information for the education world. For this post we take a look at financial education for students and the pressing need for it through our chat with Matt Towson, Director of Community Affairs at Discover.
... Continue ReadingThere are some office facing solutions that are lights out that I love. The first group that I would talk about is ClassWallet. ClassWallet is a great business office solution and you say, “Wow that is so simple!” ClassWallet talks about student funds and accounts, field trips, things like that, and you go, ‘Oh my God that’s such a low hanging fruit.’ But everyone of us brings that brown envelope down to the office. It’s a nightmare. But ClassWallet digitizes it.
... Continue ReadingA shift is occurring in school districts across the United States, a shift from top down, centralized budgeting to student-based budgeting, also referred to as weighted student funding. According to the American Legislative Exchange Council, weighted student funding is defined as “student funding from state sources. It includes additional funds, “weights,” based on percentages of foundation funding revenue to offset the higher education costs associated with certain student and school demographics.”
... Continue ReadingWe sat down with Tyler Koteskey from the education sector of the Reason Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based think tank that promotes market incentives to improve education. We discussed his views on student-based budgeting, school principal autonomy over budgets, and innovative school financial management and solutions.
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