"Communicating School Finance" is an essential fiscal guide for beginning principals, designed to help them become truly conversant in the language of everyday educational money issues. Dr. Charles R. Waggoner discusses the basics and current trends of educational finance to provide the beginning principal with a firm foundation that is essential for novice principals.

An excellent reference that is written in a clear, comprehensive manner, "Communicating School Finance" focuses on how to build budgets, how the principal affects the budget, and how the principal communicates the budget to...