Excerpt from A Survey of the Fiscal Policies of the State of Pennsylvania in the Field of Education, Vol. 2: A Report to the Citizens Committee on the Finance of Pennsylvania to Hon. Gifford Pinchot 1. The machinery for the control and support of public educa tion is in process of development. The tendency has been and still is to place control more in central organs rather than in local organs and in professional officers rather than in lay officers. The tendency in the field of support is for the state to bear a larger proportion of the cost of schools. There are many unsettled prob lems in both of these fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.