The City School District, Statutory Provisions for Organization and Fiscal Affairs (Classic Reprint)
The City School District, Statutory Provisions for Organization and Fiscal Affairs (Classic Reprint)

Author: Harry Erwin Bard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781333405045

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Excerpt from The City School District, Statutory Provisions for Organization and Fiscal Affairs The aim of this study is primarily descriptive. Its purpose is to describe the city school district as it is found, with respect to certain important features. Probably the study will be best understood when regarded as composed of two parts: the first part attempting (i) to point out the relation of the city school district to the city, (2) to determine its relation to the state, (3) to show the nature of the control the state exercises over it; the second part aiming to show the provisions the state has made for the city school district with reference to its organization and fiscal affairs. It will be seen that the task which has been set is not an easy one. The subject is not one which lends itself readily to logical treatment. The firs-t part can be treated adequately only when considered from the point of view of administrative law. But the aim of this study is practical, from the point of view of educational administration. A general understanding of the first part is, however, necessary to a full appreciation of the second part. The excuse for giving it here is that no student of administrative law has as yet presented it elsewhere. It is thought then pardonable that the practical aim be allowed to prevail even at the sacrifice of a possible full rounded develop ment of a logical theme. It follows, further, that the first part of this study is valuable here chiefly in so far as it contributes to a fuller understanding of the second part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Politicians, Judges, and City Schools
Politicians, Judges, and City Schools

Author: Joel S. Berke

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 1985-05-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1610440471

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During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement—fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws—brought significant changes to the way many states finance their public elementary and secondary school systems. School finance reform poses difficult philosophical questions: what is the meaning of equality in educational opportunity and of equity in the distribution of tax burdens? But it also involves enormous financial complexity (for example, dividing resources among competing special programs) and political risk (such as balancing local control with the need for statewide parity). For those states (like New York) that were slow to make changes a new decade has brought new constraints and complications. Sluggish economic growth, taxpayer revolts, reductions in federal aid, all affect education revenues. And the current concern with educational excellence may obscure the needs of the poor and educationally disadvantaged. This book will provide New York's policy makers and other concerned specialists with a better understanding of the political, economic, and equity issues underlying the school finance reform debate. It details existing inequities, evaluates current financing formulas, and presents options for change. Most important, for all those concerned with education and public policy in New York and elsewhere, it offers a masterful assessment of the trade-offs involved in developing reform programs that balance the conflicting demands of resource equalization, political feasibility, and fiscal responsibility. "Synthesizes the political and fiscal research [on school finance reform] and applies it to the New York Context....A blueprint for how to redesign state school finance....A fine book." —Public Administration Review "This is a book that lucidly discusses the issues in school finance and provides valuable reference material." —American Political Science Review