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According to Merry (2014) "Human Resources Leaders must work to ensure that they are implementing strategic actions that will result in recruiting and retaining highly effective teachers and principals in our most disadvantaged school districts."

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Human Resources and Finance Administration

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Human Resources and Finance Administration

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The goals of Human Resources is to recruit, retain develop, and motivate personnel to achieve the objectives of the school district, to assist individual members of the staff to reach the highest possible levels of achievement and to maximize the career development of personnel (Rebore, 2012, p. 4).

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The goal of  the finance department is to develop an annual budget with input from the various departments in the school organization.  Salaries and benefits make up 80% of the school district budget. Majority of the annual costs, finance relies on the information from human resources to allocate enough money to cover the cost of salaries and benefits of all potential employees (Stovall, 2001).

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The Human Resource  and Finance departments are responsible for a full range of personnel and payroll functions, including—
• Recruitment
• Staffing
• Classification
• Compensation
• Contract administration
• Labor relations
• Employee discipline support
• Affirmative action
• Payroll
• Benefits administration
• Leave administration
The school district’s management has recognized that the departments plays a critical role in district operations, but that the departments must functioning in an efficient and effective manner (Price, 2011).

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Bambrick-Santoyo, P. (2012). Leverage Leadership: A practical guide to building exceptional schools. Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

Merry, D. (2014). The changing role of human resources in urban schools: Perceptions of human resources leaders in the recruitment and retention of quality teachers and principals (Order No. 3643996). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1624909963). Retrieved from http://averett.idm.oclc.org/docview/1624909963?accountid=8444

Price, H. E. (2011). School networks as social resources: The relationship of school resources and school community to school effectiveness (Order No. 3497151). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (922564531). Retrieved from http://averett.idm.oclc.org/docview/922564531?accountid=8444

Robore, R. W. (2012). The essentials of human resources administration in education. New York, New York, United States of America: Pearson.

Stovall, O. S. (2001). Accounting for human resources: Implications for theory and practice (Order No. 3073554). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304715420). Retrieved from http://averett.idm.oclc.org/docview/304715420?accountid=8444

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This book prepares administrators, coaches, teachers and superintendent how to move a good school to a great school. The book provides seven levers  which answers by demonstrating the central questions of school leadership.
The Seven Levers
Executing Quality Instruction and Culture

Instructional Levers
1. Data-driven instruction
2. Observation and feedback
3. Instructional planning
4.Professional Development

Cultural Levers
1. Student Culture
2. Staff Culture
3. Managing school leadership team

The levers that relates to Human Resources and Finance: First, Observation and feedback give all teachers professional, one-on-one coaching that increases the effectiveness as instructors. Second, Professional development help strengthen both culture and instruction with hands-on training that sticks.Third, Staff culture help build and support the right team at your school.

(Bambrick-Santoyo, 2012)

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School Finance and Human Resources
Educational Finance Statistics Center (EDFIN)
This website provide financial information on public education for elementary to secondary.  Information where you can do a comparison of different districts school systems.
https://nces.ed.gov/edfin/

Education Week : School Finance
School budgets and the ways they are financed vary from state to state and school district to school district. Running and improving schools can not happen without the proper resources.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/school-finance/index.html

Finance: How Do We Finance Our Schools?
This website give a breakdown of the national, state and local funding for K-12 education. The court has ordered the states to overhaul their system to fund public schools  more equally.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wherewestand/blog/finance-how-do-we-fund-our-schools/197/

Often Overlooked HR department important to school district reform, study shows
School district human resources are often overlooked but plays a crucial role in schools success. It is a case study done on three districts.
https://www.crpe.org/news/often-overlooked-hr-department-important-school-district-reform-study-shows