Generating financial budgets are standard operating practice for any business to maintain and continuously review. For schools, budgets affect the day-to-day operations and they impact students and teachers alike. When state and federal funding or donor contributions run dry, budget reductions may be necessary. In this assignment, you will be tasked with making challenging budget decisions while keeping the best interests of students, teachers, and staff in mind. Unfortunately, funds are not as lucrative as they used to be for school districts and colleges. You must reduce the budget by at least 20%, but no more than 50%. Read the case studies below, then answer the instruction questions using the allocation table template. The table will be completed after viewing the budget allocation spreadsheet.

Case Study

For this assignment, you will read the appropriate case study applicable to your educational level and complete the requirements.

Lake Forest City Schools (LFCS). K-12 School Division

You were originally allocated $53, 349, 882 for your annual budget at Lake Forest City Schools (LFCS). The funding sources that allocated funds are included for your review. Due to COVID-19 impacts, your budget has been reduced to $42,169, 665 and more cuts are needed. There are certain areas that are eligible for this round of budget cuts. The instructional budget is not eligible for cuts at this time.

1. Justify which areas of the budget you made reductions to for your chosen school or university.
2. Explain how the budget reductions affect the overall budget and operation of your chosen school or university.
3. Complete the Budget allocation spreadsheet [XLSX] Download Budget allocation spreadsheet [XLSX]for your chosen school or university.
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4. Complete the budget allocation table Download budget allocation tablefor your chosen school or university.
5. Use four sources to support your writing, outside of your textbook. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. The references page and budget allocation table do not count toward the page total. 
6. Submit the assignment and the budget allocation table together in one attachment.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support

 Instructions:In Module 1, we learned about the properties of life. After completing this week’s assigned readings and the Module 1 Lesson, address the following:

1. Create a slide presentation collage based on this week’s theme, the properties of life. You will have multiple images for each slide. You may use PowerPoint, Google Slides, or another application of your choice. Organize your information as detailed below.
   • Slide 1: Describe the properties of life.
   • Slide 2: Describe the levels of organization among living things.
   • Slide 3: Compare prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells.
   • Slide 4: Describe the roles of cells in organisms.
   • Slide 5: Compare types of microscopy and their applications. Describe the relative sizes of different kinds of cells.
   • Slide 6: Summarize the cell theory. 
   • Slide 7: References (Use open-access images and cite where you got the information.)

What did you already know about “interdisciplinarity” before you read this week’s readings?  

What was something you learned which stood out to you?

 In what ways can you see IDS as beneficial to you? 

What would you like to gain from this course? 

What questions do you have? 

After responding to these general questions, answer the question in the Interdisciplinary Research textbook page 30 #1.5.  

My favorite reading would probably be Week 4’s Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum. The reason it was my favorite is because it’s a mix of different concepts that I enjoy reading about. There’s social matters, religion, narrative storytelling, and it comes almost in a fantasy form. It didn’t give me a new perspective, but rather gave me a deeper understanding about how religions and texts are capable of depicting protected groups a certain way. Specifically how it isn’t always clear, but any form of illustration or representation is dangerous when not done first-hand. I found this topic relevant because religion is such a sensitive topic when arguing about social matters, but there are individuals who don’t see the damage and pick and choose what they want to voice out, so this text really just emphasized that more. Plus it really is just an interesting text that mentions witches, demons, and temptresses that I enjoy reading about. What the reading taught me about history is to take every record and “historical” fact with a grain of salt because you never fully know the reasoning or motivation behind them. Some can depict groups of people as bad guys, but in reality, it could just be the author’s bias, and since the past already happened, there’s no clear definitive way to fully understand what happened. All in all, being curious, interpreting things your own way, and being careful about trusting what you read, are the biggest things I learned from this text.