Insights

Practical notes from the work

Articles, short case studies, and real examples from charter school finance and automation. Specific problems, what we did, and what changed.

FY27 / Budget season

The FY27 Margin Illusion: When a Funding Increase Still Shrinks Your Budget

FY27 NYC charter tuition rose 3.8% to $20,663 per pupil. Here is why your operating margin can still shrink, and how to see the squeeze before your board votes.

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Origin / Nutrition

The food program that started EduCents

A three-school charter network was spending heavily on meals, and no one could see why. Pulling the program apart, campus by campus, is the reason EduCents exists.

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Automation / CC allocationVideo

Turning credit card allocation into a workflow

Every month, someone hand-allocated a stack of credit card charges across programs and funds. We rebuilt it as a workflow, with a person still signing off.

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Turn slow, manual finance work into systems your board can act on.

EduCents helps charter finance teams turn the board-report scramble into a few minutes, see program costs clearly by campus, and get month-end back under control. The hours go back to the work that never gets time: the forecasting, the program analysis, the questions your board actually asks. We build the tools, and a finance expert checks the numbers before they reach your board.