Technology Funding for Schools

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Summary: Thumbs up from The Doyle Report.com
Review: Despite the best horticultural efforts, money does not grow on trees. Schools know this all too well. Budgets are tight and the demands are high. Technology investment is one of these demands, and it's a pesky one. Technology changes how we work, and keeping up with these cultural changes requires investments. So if not the trees, from where do the resources come? David Bauer's TECHNOLOGY FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS (Feb. 2000) begins to tackle the problem.

The real question is not about sources, but the organization required to utilize and create the sources. To that end, TECHNOLOGY FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS can be divided into seven bailiwicks:

Developing technology support groups
Winning grants
Obtaining corporate funding
Pursuing government funding
Developing individual support
Selecting the most effective fund raising strategy
and mapping winning strategies

Each section reviews successful strategies to realize the chapter's goals and provides useful checklists to keep track of progress. The book comes with a disk that holds electronic versions of the checklists that can be reproduced and tailored to the schools specific needs. ....