To have high quality of school administration and students’ services success means to consolidate both teachers’ and student’s efforts. One of the forms of such consolidation is administration and services sharing. It can also be used as a cost saving measure. Increasing the amount of services through sharing benefits students because it offers more opportunities, such as special education services. For many school districts, particularly those with growing student populations and in need of more space, sharing services is an attractive alternative to cutting back on educational programs or services to needed, non-classroom work done.
Sharing recreational facilities, purchasing, as well as maintenance of buildings grounds and vehicles are considered typical shared services. Some states have mandated shared administrative costs, positions such as business administrators or directors of special education, or directors of other types of very specific programs, particularly with flat state funding for school districts.
Sharing an office equipment service with a technician who maintains the copy machines in a majority of the five district’s schools is one of the ideas practiced in some schools. Some special education services and personnel are shared between districts including the services of an audiologist. Some psychology services; the day treatment program for children with emotional and behavioral problems. School districts entered into a cooperative contract to buy paper. Joint use of technology resources also occurs between districts. Regional technology meetings and on-line courses for teacher training are coordinated. The food service departments coordinate efforts to increase their buying power of commonly used school meal items.
