Students occasionally lack the skills necessary to succeed in a higher educational environment. In a 1989 report, the American Library Association stated that “Information literacy is a survival skill in the Information Age,” and called for a restructuring of the learning process itself rather than that of the curriculum (Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, 1989). Information Literacy may be identified as the ability to locate information in the following context

As leaders in K-12 education, we are often called to develop budgets for schools, districts, or special projects. Having had some experience with this as well as cost control techniques, I thought I’d share my thinking regarding a strategic approach to budgeting, forecasting, and financial management. Of course I won’t get into any nitty-gritty elements of budgets (e.g. object classification) but focus more on the big picture. Any educational organization has to engage in e