In search of cost-effective schools

ranging all way from small villages to large states and federal government-finding ways to make schools cost-effective is apt to become increasingly necessary. urgent need for other services also calls for cost-cutting, and a strapped public is becoming more and more impatient about school needs. One local newspaper's recent response to teacher salary demands was a blunt, The plain, pure, simple fact of matter is taxpayers cannot afford increased taxes.... Do job you are paid to do, or find another (Willmott, 1992). We examine here some major extant costeffectiveness proposals, and we look largely to New York State developments to display context of such concerns. In late 1992, New York's commissioner of education announced his intent to seek legislation enabling him to impose consolidation on any districts where indicated. His rationale was that the people of state . . . have an interest in seeing that all children receive their constitutional right to an education and that public's money is not squandered, regardless of local wishes (Sobol, 1992, p. 7). A few months later, an expose revealed a retired regional (BOCES, or Board of Cooperative Educational Services) superintendent to have just left system

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• Expenditure and Size Efficiencies of Public School Districts

  Herbert J Walberg, WILLIAM J FOWLER•Educational Researcher•1987

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