TASA, TASB, and TASBO Present Budget Cohort
The 2024-2025 Texas District Leaders Budget Cohort program kicks off with a webinar on September 10, 2024.
The cohort is a collaboration between the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), and the Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASBO) offering comprehensive budget development training for school district teams. Participants can earn up to 30 hours of training credits through a combination of webinars and face-to-face meetings at the associations’ regularly scheduled conferences.
The cohort model consists of the superintendent and the chief officers for finance, curriculum, human resources, and operations participating as a collaborative team. It is designed to allow districts to better use their finance and business functions to support and enhance other areas, including curriculum and instruction, human resources, special programs, and operations.
The September 10 webinar topics include:
- What is Budget Cohort? Importance of the Cross-Functional Team
- 2025-2026 Budget Adoption Process
- Landscape Analysis: Polling Activity about the Budget Process
- Budget Calendar
The second meeting is scheduled for September 26 and will be a face-to-face, full-day training at txEDCON (TASA/TASB joint conference). The third and fourth sessions are webinars scheduled for November 19 and December 17. The remaining sessions, scheduled through June, include two additional webinars and three full-day sessions at the TASA Midwinter, TASBO Engage, and TASBO Summer Solutions conferences.
HR Services staff will present during the webinar offered on December 17 and at the TASBO Engage conference on February 25.
Registration information, event and webinar dates, and a full agenda for all training sessions can be found on the TASBO event website.
Karen Dooley
Karen Dooley joined HR Services in 2016. She provides oversight to a team of consultants providing staffing services, HR reviews, and other projects. She provides training and assists school districts with their HR-related needs. Dooley is a seasoned administrator with more than 17 years of HR experience in Central Texas districts as a coordinator, director, and assistant superintendent. She also worked as an assistant principal, counselor, and teacher, and holds a superintendent certificate.
Dooley received her master’s degree from Prairie View A&M University and her bachelor’s degree from Texas State University.
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