Excerpt from State Policies in Public School FinanceThe vast increases in school expenditure revealed by Table 1 are the result of the interaction of many different factors - the rapid increase both in total and in school population, the lengthening of the legal school year, the extension and increasingly effective enforcement of compulsory education laws, the placing by the community upon the school of a larger and larger number of functions, resulting In the introduction of many new types of studies and activities. It is impossible to consider here these various factors and the part they have played in increasing school costs. We may, however, show what is perhaps the most in¿uential of all the above factors, namely, the growth in average attendance. In like manner, the increase in the annual average expenditure per Child epitomizes the net result of the interaction of most, if not all, of the factors at work} Data bearing upon these two factors are gathered together in Table 2, which shows by 10-year periods the increase from 1870 to 1918 in (1) the number of children in average attendance, (2) the annual expenditure per child in attendance, (3) the total annual expenditure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.