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Finance Modeling
Financing to Scale Blended Learning Summary
A slide deck (PDF) that explores key financial planning steps for funding blended learning at scale, including key cost variables, cost drivers, and funding sources.
Financing to Scale Blended Learning Worksheet
An Excel worksheet for districts to use to calculate a multi-year estimate of the cost to scale blended learning.
District Guide: Financing to Scale Blended Learning
A five-step guide showing school districts how to avoid getting stuck in the pilot phase, and successfully budget for scaling blended learning.
Financial Planning in the Time of COVID-19
Three concrete tools, contextualized in case studies that leaders can use as they finish the 2020-21 school year and begin financial planning for the 2021-22 school year for school systems and CMOs.
Financing Personalized Learning: What Can We Learn From First-Generation Adopters
A report from CRPE that takes a systematic look at costs associated with implementing personalized learning schools, how leaders of these schools choose to allocate their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially...
Planning for COVID-19 Expenditures
Afton Partners has anonymized and shared a cost-estimation model, allowing networks to project financial impacts on unknown operational supply needs. Each type of expense item can be tied to different drivers, aiding in the estimation of costs (or...
Managing Uncertainties Around Funding in Mid-Sized Systems
Afton Partners has anonymized and shared a simple 12-month cash flow projection tool, allowing school networks (like the charter management organization [CMO] highlighted in this case) to project cash every month by leveraging the organization’s...
Cash Management and Planning for Reducing Organizational Risk
This simple 12-month cashflow projection tool allows charter management organizations to project cash on a monthly basis by leveraging the organization-total annual budget and input assumptions on the timing of cashflows.
Transformative Budgeting for Digital Learning: NJ Department of Education
This guide intended to assist districts in rethinking traditional budgetary approaches in order to find possible ways to fund technology initiatives by repurposing existing funding sources. The paper offers step-by-step advice through investigation,...