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- Title
THE FINANCING OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION.
- Authors
James, H. Thomas
- Abstract
This article focuses on the formulation of public policy in order to give fiscal benefits to secondary education in the United States. Public policy for financing elementary and secondary education in the United States is complex, because it grows out of poorly articulated general policy for education developed over time by local school officials, state legislatures, the Congress, and the courts. On the one hand, federal funds are being cut back because educators have not satisfied the Congress that more federal money for education will improve educational services. On the other hand, local taxpayers are piling up an ominous record of negative actions on school appropriations. As a consequence of reduced support for schools at both the federal and the local levels, pressure for increased state appropriations builds up around the governors and the legislators. Here, too, one finds skepticism that more money, per se, will improve school services. According to the author, if indeed schools are to be held accountable for the funds appropriated to them, this will mean evaluation of the services they perform judged in some relation to appropriations, and to what is expected of schools.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATION policy; POLITICAL planning; FEDERAL aid to education; FINANCE; EDUCATORS; UNITED States appropriations &; expenditures; MONEY; LEGISLATION
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1970, Vol 30, Issue 4, p371
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974459