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June and Aug. 2007: Initial meetings with committee to clarify objectives, roles of committee members, present background information on SBB, and hear about the work of the Augenblick, Palaich, & Associates (APA) consultants. The APA consultants will serve in an advisory capacity with the committee and PSD staff on small schools SBB adjustment formulas, and to assist in determining criteria at which the closure of a school might be considered, based on programming and cost analysis.
Aug. – Sept. 2007: Committee reviews current research on what resources are important to have in effective schools. APA shares information from current adequacy studies, utilizing evidence-based approach to adequacy, expenditure data for a number of different school characteristics, and other information gathered from studies.
Sept. – Oct. 2007: Committee and APA plan and organize professional panels of teachers and principals to assist with cost and programmatic analysis based on school size.
Dec. 2007: Committee makes a recommendation to the SBB Committee regarding funding factors for SBB for the 2008-09 school year.
Jan. 2008: SBB Committee revises the size factor for the 2008-09 funding allocation to schools.
Jan. – Feb. 2008: Committee identifies school sizes at which closure may be considered, based on need to provide students with an adequate education.
March 2008: Committee finalizes its work and develops a report to present to Superintendent on school size consideration. |
• Following a yearlong study and in-depth discussion with principals, PSD adopted a new budget allocation system called Student-Based Budgeting (SBB), a more equitable, transparent, flexible, student-centered model.
• Through SBB, each school’s allocation includes funds based on projected enrollment for fall 2007: a per pupil base amount and additional per pupil funds for weighted student need factors such as at-risk, English Language Learners, grades K-3, gifted/talented, geographic location, and school size.
• The Small School Committee will make a recommendation to the SBB Committee regarding the school size and possibly other funding factors. This will assist the SBB Committee in continuing to fine-tune the SBB process.
• Committees concluded this portion of work by Dec. 2007, which allows the SBB formulas to be allocated to schools by January or February 2008. |
Meeting Schedule 2008 (73 KB) 
Monthly Summaries & Meeting Minutes
Final Small Schools Study Report
Committee Members (119 KB)
Colorado School Finance Project Adequacy Study
Student- Based Budgeting Information (116 KB)
PSD's Channel 10 Small Schools Study TV show
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