The Haines Borough School District is changing how it budgets, aiming for greater transparency and accountability.
Under new superintendent Ginger Jewell, the district is moving to “zero-based budgeting,” using projections of actual costs, including estimates from teachers, to start building next year’s school budget now.
“It’s a much better way of budgeting in my opinion,” Jewell said, including by detecting inflated budgets and driving the district to find cost-effective ways to improve” Jewell said in…
