Defensible Spending for Public Schools / Arvid J. Burke and Paul R. Mort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Arvid J., 1906-1999, author.

Mort, Paul R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States--Finance.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1943]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231880657

0231880650

OCLC:

1114791577