Financing urban schools: predicting fiscal stress in large city school districts

Many large urban school districts in the United States have suffered from fiscal stress, while others have not. Fiscal stress often has led to program cutbacks, layoffs, and decline in the quality of educational services. The purpose of this research study was to examine the predictors of fiscal stress in large urban school districts and to develop a method for predicting fiscal stress. A variety of demographic, economic, financial, governance, and geographic variables were used. The study found a number of variables that were significantly related to large urban school district fiscal stress and produced a model for predicting fiscal stress.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Administration

Department dc:contributor.department

Educational Administration

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1984

Author dc:creator

• Ward, James G.

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• Alexander, M. David
• Salmon, Richard

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Underwood, Kenneth E.
• Fortune, Jimmie C.
• McKeown, Mary P.
• White, Orion F. Jr.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74707

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/74707