Özet:

Economic functioning, which constitutes an important part of organizational management, is a phenomenon that is under the responsibility of school principals that must be managed. In terms of effective school management, it becomes clear that the economic functioning of schools should be more subject to educational management research. In the 2023 Education Vision document of the Ministry of National Education, an important place was given for this issue and studies on the budgets of schools were planned. In this respect, the aim of this study is to examine the economic functioning of public schools. The research is a qualitative research design and the data were collected through a semi-structured interview form. The data were analyzed with descriptive analysis technique and various themes and categories were reached. According to the results of the research, the main sources of income of public schools are “public budgets, school-parent unity, parents, teachers and canteen”; the needs of schools are met by both in-kind and cash benefits; the costs of schools are “cleaning, maintenance, consumables, materials, tools, transportation, generators; in resource management in schools attention is paid to accountability, transparency, billing and decision-making; problems in the economic management of the schools such as income-expense imbalance, lack of parents' help, lack of public funding, unexpected expenses, lack of family unity; the “school development budget” target envisaged by the 2023 education vision is seen as positive but difficult to implement.

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