Baltimore-based education finance technology company Allovue, Inc. is pleased to announce the third Future of Education Finance Summit (FEFS) to be held on October 24 from 8 am to 5 pm in Baltimore, MD, at the Kimpton Monaco Hotel. This year’s theme, “Charting the Path,” will delve into the nuanced challenges school districts face when creating effective financial management strategies as well as present tactical solutions and recommendations from education finance experts. School district leaders and education finance professionals are invited to attend this daylong event that includes networking, panel discussions, and workshops.
FEFS will feature a variety of timely and informative sessions all related to the SMART Pathways of Student Success, Allovue’s financial management framework, designed to help districts create sustainable financial management practices. The Pathways are as follows: Site Level Management, Management, Alignment of Spending to Goals, Resource Equity, and Transparency. Each session is related to a specific pathway and attendees will be able to choose the paths of most interest to them.
The Summit will feature rich breakout sessions, presented or moderated by notable education finance peers or experienced district partners on topics such as, “Successes and Challenges in Implementing a Weighted Student Funding System” and “The Texas Smart Schools Approach to Identifying Effective and Efficient Schools.”
Other noteworthy sessions include a workshop hosted by Dr. Marguerite Roza, the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University and Senior Research Affiliate at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, entitled: “Engaging Principals Using Financial Data,” and a special presentation by Bruce Baker titled, “Why Now? The Year of Statewide Teacher Strikes” where he will also discuss his upcoming book, “Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America's Students.”
The 2018 summit agenda will arm educators with practical suggestions and tactical action plans allowing them to make the best financial decisions for their districts, schools, and students. “The education industry is on the brink of monumental change with the upcoming ESSA implementation, and there is an unprecedented opportunity to innovate how education finance data is leveraged across stakeholders to improve outcomes for students,” said Jess Gartner, CEO of Allovue.
To learn more about the organizations, districts, and sponsors that will be presenting and featured at the summit, visit fefsummit.com.
Registration for the Summit is open until October 19, 2018.
About Allovue
Allovue is a K-12 education finance technology company that empowers educators to strategically and equitably allocate resources to best support the needs of students. Their signature software platform, Balance, helps educators budget, manage, and evaluate spending. Allovue also supports district financial strategy through research, training, and equity analysis. The company currently has 22 employees and has an office at R. House in Baltimore, MD.
