Education is a service-oriented business. While profit and loss provides an immediate measure of fiscal success or failure, in the educational setting the measures of success are more complicated and long term. A school system has its students for thirteen years and those years are shaped by incredible individual change and significant social, technical, and economic changes.
Our responsibility to the shareholders (community members) and investors (primarily property owners) is not diminished by time but rather enhanced. We must use, as effectively and efficiently as possible, the resources we have been provided.
