ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPALS’ FUNDING OPTIONS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IMPROVEMENT IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The deplorable state of public secondary schools in Anambra state requires an investigation into their statutory and non-statutory funding options to mitigate decaying infrastructural facilities that appear to have become the common features of public secondary schools in the state. This prompted the researchers to analyze the statutory and non-statutory funding options of public secondary schools’ principals in Anambra state. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all the 263 registered public secondary school principals in Anambra state. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample size of 77 respondents. A13-item questionnaire titled ‘‘Principals’ Funding Options for Schools Improvement in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra State (PFOSSI)’’ was used data collection. The instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts from Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Cronbach alpha method was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. The overall coefficient of 0.84 was obtained. The researcher with the help of two research assistants collected the data for the study. Mean was used to answer the research questions, while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that public secondary school Principals do not effectively utilize the non-statutory funding options. Accordingly, it was recommended that principals should be sensitized on the need to explore other funding options other than the statutory allocations from the government.