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Document 179
Document 179
EAD 510
Lisa Schlabra
Developmental timeframe: Data is collected every year from the schools in the district based on
the different surveys that they send out to the parents, students, teachers, and other support
staff. The data collected normally comes back from the students, teachers, and support staff.
The parent's data is the hardest data to collect because they do not always send it back. The
data that is collected helps the schools district and the state decide how they are going to
allocate funds within that district especially those title one funds that go to help schools with
everything.
Stakeholders involved in the process: The school district, the principals, the state, teachers,
How were needs identified: The needs are identified based off the surveys and how the data is
collected.
Process of defense and modification: The budget is revised every year based upon the number
District technology requirements and their effects on the budget process: Palm Beach County
Schools District makes sure that there was a laptop for every student in the school, they also
took the older computers and the phased them out, they assessed all the computers that were
broken and those that can be fixed to have extra laptops on hand. Textbooks are also something
that the district looks at and whether they are buying paperback books or regular textbooks
monkey last week. The information received from the survey was positive and informative. It gave me
Jeaga Middle school is a school in Palm Beach County where the population of the school is Hispanic,
and Haitian. The number of students that attend the school is 987. The school is listed as a Title One
school where most of the students come from low-income areas of West Palm Beach. The school is
currently operating as a C school, the school was a D, but the school overall learning gains brought the
grade up.The biggest program that we have at Jeaga Middle School is our ESE department Which covers
a wide range of things and accommodations for the students that we are servicing.
I conducted a survey with the permission of principal Dr. Anthony Allen, a Needs assessment survey
given to ten random teachers and staff at the school. The survey was going to give me the opportunity
to see what the staff needed and what the staff thought could be changed to make the school better.
The questions on the survey varied but gave those who were taking it a chance to truly express their
opinions and to remain nameless. After the survey, I and Dr. Allen sat down to discuss the survey's
findings to see if he also had similar thoughts and if the things the teachers expressed could be put in
next year's budget. To my surprise some of the things that the teachers had suggested were budget
items that were going to be reviewed and see if they could be allocated into the budget.
After discussing the survey Dr. Allen and I went over the budget expenditures for the year, the one
expenditure that he said was the most expensive was the budget of the staff on campus. When we were
discussing the overall numbers the only thing that he was comfortable with me putting in here was his
overall salary which is 118, 000 dollars a year. He informed me that the teachers were all on a sliding
scale, so their salaries varied. The second largest expenditure on the campus went to the technology he
informed me that when they purchase new equipment the school spends roughly 1 million on all the
equipment that the school buys, buying the equipment in bulk saves the school a large amount of
Dr Allen showed me the revenue that the school makes, when asking him about the revenue he
informed me that the revenue that was counted by the school is revenue that does not have to be
dispersed back to a particular program. Jeaga has two festivals that both generate a great amount of
money. Both festivals generated close to $20,000 last year and this year he is expecting more because
the school has more students. The school also takes a college tour every year that generates a small
amount of income for the school but not like the fall festival.
The one thing that was learned from the survey was that the teachers all felt that morale at the school
was high, and they all felt that Dr. Allen listened to their concerns and made sure that he was present
for them. The teacher felt that we were able to meet the students’ needs when it came. The teachers
also felt that more funds should be allocated to helping most of the students speak a foreign language.
The one thing that caught me off guard was the fact that the teachers felt that we needed more
qualified teachers at the school. They understand that since COVID there has been a teacher shortage,
but they feel that the students are being late down by not receiving the proper schooling.
Based off the data collected there are several things that I would suggest that take place at Jeaga middle
School next year, The first thing that I would suggest is that the school invest in more support facilitation
for the students that really need it, sometime giving he students the sense of knowing that there is more
than one teacher could make a world of difference of hat student passing or failing. I also feel that the
school should invest in Saturday tutorial, the students that truly need the extra push would be the ones
that are recommended to Saturday tutorial by the teachers so they can continue their education and