TEA Budgeting Guidelines

I believe that the document titled, “TEA Budgeting Guidelines January 2010,” is a very important document for anyone wishing to learn more about school finance and the budgeting process.  I have stated from the first Superintendent class that finance is probably my greatest weakness.  I found this document to be very helpful to me in understanding school finance.  I learned many things while reading the budgeting guidelines document.  For example, our district uses the line item approach to budgeting.  I thought that there were no other processes of budgeting for a district and that all districts used the line item method.  I also achieved a better level of understanding related to Tier 1 and Tier 2 allotments.  I believe that these guidelines will help me be able to contribute to developing a district budget because I can review the guidelines and actually understand the process better than in the past.