Cost reduction programme at an award winning school district

To avoid placing new costs on parents via school fees, the Pewaukee School District (PSD), a US school district and winner of the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, strategically set school fees slightly lower than its Waukesha County competitors. To pay for this, PSD instituted measures to contain or reduce costs, and: 1) Served as the catalyst for and fiscal agent of a multi-district cooperative purchasing pool for health insurance to reduce the long-term cost of health insurance pr...

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11.1.4 Manage cash flow
6.4.2 Implement systems for managing the service