IIRC breakdown

I continue to enjoy the IIRC website. I believe this site can be very beneficial to every school district. While I don't understand some of the inconsistencies in finance, it is nice to be able to ask Dr. Closen questions. I also begin looking forward to finance class. At first I wasnt sure about the relevance of this site to this class but I now understand that personnel decisions are usually based on monetary decisions that may be analyzed by this site. If not decisions are made by finances then possible assessment trends may be clarified by the monitoring of this site annually. I used the site in a Statistics class I teach today to try to find correlations between low income, attendance and expenditures/students with student achievement. I asked the students to predict the relationship then after having the scatterplots to draw a line of best fit (if a correlation exists). They enjoy working with real-world situations. This is also what I enjoy the most about our EDL 522 discussions on IIRC.