Present the district budget to the school board and community
Turns a district budget into a clear board presentation explaining revenue, spending, trade-offs, and impact on students.
The prompt
Help me present our district budget to the school board and the public.
Budget year and total: [DETAILS]
Revenue sources: [e.g. state aid formula, local levy, federal Title funds, ESSER ending, grants]
Major changes from last year: [cuts, additions, enrollment change, salary agreements]
Fund balance and reserve policy: [DETAILS]
Hard trade-offs: [e.g. "closing a school", "larger class sizes", "cutting a program"]
Audience concerns I expect: [e.g. taxes, layoffs, specific programs]
Time allowed: [MINUTES]
Build:
1. A slide-by-slide outline (10-14 slides): where the money comes from, where it goes (per-pupil and by function: instruction, support, operations, transportation), what changed and why, enrollment trend, fund balance, the trade-offs, and the impact on students.
2. One plain-language headline per slide, no accounting jargon.
3. Speaker notes for each slide.
4. A one-page community handout.
5. Likely board and public questions with honest answers, including the ones about taxes and staffing.
Rules:
- Use only the figures I give; mark gaps [ADD FIGURE].
- Show one-time money (grants, expiring federal funds) separately from recurring revenue.
- Follow state budget hearing and public notice requirements, marked [CONFIRM].
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- DETAILS
- cuts, additions, enrollment change, salary agreements
- e.g. taxes, layoffs, specific programs
- MINUTES
- ADD FIGURE
- CONFIRM
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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