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CFB ISD outlines shift to priority-based budgeting as enrollment and revenue pressures continue
Summary
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD finance staff presented a move to priority-based budgeting to align spending with board-established priorities amid enrollment volatility, stagnant state funding and rising fixed costs.
District finance staff told trustees Jan. 8 that structural revenue pressures and enrollment volatility require a new budgeting approach that prioritizes programs by student impact rather than incremental adjustments.
Carla Settle presented the district's priority-based budgeting framework, saying the method inventories programs, scores them on mission alignment, student impact, cost efficiency and compliance, and then…
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