WORKSHEET 9: Collecting Information on
Benefits and Costs
(A) State your preferred policy:
Increase
education in
(B) Identify an important benefit and cost for your preferred policy and next to each one, describe how you would measure it and what your source of data would be:
BENEFIT:
HOW MEASURED AND SOURCE OF DATA:
Decrease in student
absenteeism in Bronx Public Schools.
Number of health,
specifically asthma related absences reported by Bronx Public Schools health
offices.
COST:
HOW MEASURED AND SOURCE OF DATA:
The
hiring of additional staff to administer the Asthma Education Program.
Cost of salaries recorded
by New York City Department of Health and New York City Department of
Education.