Robert D. Ramsey is a lifelong educator who has served as a "leader of leaders" in three award-winning school districts in two different states. His frontline experience includes positions a teacher, counselor, assistant principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, acting superintendent, and adjunct professor. Most recently, he has served as associate superintendent in the St. Louis Park (MN) schools, where every school has been designated by the federal government as a National School of Excellence. Ramsey is now working full-time as a freelance writer in Minneapolis.
This is the first comprehensive guide for making the most of all school resourses - and even thriving in times of dwindling funds. This no-nonsense handbook covers every aspect of fiscal fitness for today's schools; from cutting costs without cutting essential programmes and accomplishing as much as before or more with less staff, to running a low cost, no frills activity programme and finding and raising money for your school.
