Herein is a companion study to the report on "State Policies in Public-School Finance," published as Bulletin No. 6, 1922, which was written with a view to summarizing the most significant conclusions resulting from a series of comprehensive investigations of public-school finance made by Doctor Swift and others in 11 different States. In the…

The process of economic retrenchment and institutional decline that occurred within the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1975-1976, a time of New York City fiscal crisis, is analyzed. Attention is directed to the public policy conflict between the policies of free tuition and direct student aid; the relative roles of state, city, and federal…

This paper examines issues concerning educational finance in the Washington, D.C. public schools according to three measures of adequacy: city budget, per pupil expenditures, and teacher-student ratio. The issues are discussed in the context of historical, social, and political developments (the change from Federal control over the school district…