Transforming School Funding for Equity, Transparency, and Flexibility: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Implementing Student-Based Budgeting

Ready to implement SBB? This detailed manual describes the conditions for success for SBB and helps district leaders assess whether it is the right strategic move for their district. Through our work, we have identified a series of crucial design decisions, implementation tools, process steps, and strategies that are hallmarks of the most successful SBB efforts. Transforming School Funding for Equity, Transparency, and Flexibility codifies those practices in a step-by-step guide that presents the different decisions and steps districts will take during the design and implementation of an SBB system.

This guide aims to empower district and school teams with the context, knowledge, and strategies needed to create a system that distributes resources more equitably and effectively across the district