id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000470845100007 Barrett, N Forecast Bias and Fiscal Slack Accumulation in School Districts 2019 .txt text/plain 255 9 35 The findings indicate that school districts are engaged in strategic planning with implicit fiscal slack, which allows them to accumulate explicit fiscal slack, a cornerstone of prudent financial management that can provide budgetary flexibility during financial uncertainty. One strategy school districts continue to utilize is countercyclical stabilization of expenditures with fiscal slack, which raises an important-and, to date, largely unanswered-question of how school districts manage to accumulate fiscal slack, given both volatility and decreases in revenues in the years following the Great Recession. cache/WOS-000470845100007.txt txt/WOS-000470845100007.txt