Education : EDL 605 Fiscal Resources and Business Management

Subjects and descriptors are ways to quickly search for items within a particular idea. All book and articles records incorporate this controlled language to  better faciliate research. While search through records, notice that subjects/descriptors are hyperlinked. Simply click on this link and the engine will return all materials with the same subject. While subjects and descriptors are essentially the same thing, library catalogs use subject headings, while most databases (where scholarly articles are located) use the term descriptor. Here are some to start your search with:

Educational leadership (broad topic)

School management and organization

Education -- United States -- finance

Educational equalization

Budget -- Alabama (narrow topic)

Educational finance

Finance reform

Resource allocation

In addition to books, consider consulting peer-reviewed journals for articles on school finance. Many of these sources contain studies, graphs, and charts that may enhance your presentation. 

Also, think of nontraditional sources like government websites dealing with education topics. They exist both at the federal and state level. The Fair Standards Labor Act (FSLA) is an example of this: http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/ (Hint: many of these sites have search features to help excise the information you seek)

Another nontraditional avenue is the docmentary, It's a Thick Book. The film attempts to explain Alabama's 1901 Constitution and tax system and how that affects stakeholders such as the education community.