Defensible Spending for Public Schools / / Arvid J. Burke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Burke, Arvid J.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mort, Paul R.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1943]; ©1943
• Year of Publication: 1943
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)

Examines trends of educational expenditure as related to other governmental expenditures and deals with the operational problems of spending such as managing money, operating the budget, and of spending money safely and wisely over against the control system.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Part One. Understanding Public School Spending -- Chapter I. Facing Future Public School Spending Problems -- Chapter II. Governmental Spending and Public School Expenditures -- Chapter III. Public School Expenditure Trends and Their Causes -- Chapter IV. Variations in Public School Expenditures and Their Meaning -- Chapter V. Political and Social Ideals and Policies Underlying Public School Spending -- Chapter VI. The Economics of Public School Spending -- Part Two. Control and Improvement of Public School Spending -- Chapter VII. Control of Public School Outlays and Intergovernmental and Interinstitutional Relations -- Chapter VIII. Control of Public School Spending Through Improved Management -- Chapter IX. Control of Public School Spending Through Improved Budgets -- Chapter X. Prudence and Economy in Public School Expenditures -- Chapter XI. Improved Personnel Policies and Economical Expenditures -- Chapter XII. Defensible Spending for Public Schools -- Appendix I. Guide to the Literature on Public School Finance -- Appendix II. General Bibliography -- Index