Public school administration; a statement of the fundamental principles underlying the organization and administration of public education . ds that the school department be not only ableto prove its needs, but also able to force the city governingauthorities to recognize them. Once the city authorities tended to divide the city taxesbetween the school system and the other city needs, theother city-department needs — streets, sewers, health, fire,police, parks, library, and general expense — then beingrelatively small. Within recent years these other city needshave greatly increased in size an
Public school administration; a statement of the fundamental principles underlying the organization and administration of public education . ds that the school department be not only ableto prove its needs, but also able to force the city governingauthorities to recognize them. Once the city authorities tended to divide the city taxesbetween the school system and the other city needs, theother city-department needs — streets, sewers, health, fire,police, parks, library, and general expense — then beingrelatively small. Within recent years these other city needshave greatly increased in size and importance, due in partto the increasing costs for all kiuds of service and material. 414 PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION and in part to the more insistent public demands for goodparks, streets, sewers, health and fire protection, etc. Eachof these other departments is able to offer easily understoodstatements as to needs, unit-costs, savings effected, benefitsextended, etc., to back up their requests for additionalfunds. The school department also asks yearly for more money,largely on the basis of good intentions and purposes, but. Schenectady, San Francisco, Cal. Fio. 34. SHOWING THE COMPETITION FOR CITY FUNDS In both cities the school board has nothing to do with the fixing of the tax-rate forschools, and in each the schools have been completely outdistanced in the race for fundsby other city departments. Many other cities will show a similar situation. without being able clearly to prove its needs. When an at-tempt is made to do so it not infrequently is made in termswhich the ordinary citizen can scarcely comprehend. Inpart, this condition is inevitable, by reason of the very natureof the school. Often, however, the school department pre-sents no budget worthy of a name,^ and no statement that ? This is well illustrated by the situation in San very obvious reason why the schools have failed to receive neededappropriations is that the school authoritie
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