By Myron Lieberman

This e-book brings to gentle interesting information about the true expense of public education―one of America's greatest industries. It demonstrates that govt data at the expenses of public schooling considerably understate the particular expenses to taxpayers. The phasing in of latest and extra exact reporting necessities by means of 2006 can assist in opting for the true expense of public schooling.

Controversy over the recent reporting standards will generate a excessive point of curiosity between policymakers, university board participants, college directors, professors of schooling, the media, and others attracted to schooling.

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The GASB establishes standards by adopting Statements of Governmental Accounting Standards. Before issuing a Statement, the Board publishes an Exposure Draft of the proposed Statement and “solicits and considers the views of its various constituencies on all accounting and financial reporting The Board maintains a record of its public hearings, allowing comments and discussion on the Exposure Drafts. 4 The GASB Statements are numbered chronologically; Statement No. 1 was issued in July 1984, and by mid-2002, 39 statements had been approved.

However, land improvements, such as parking lot surfaces, fences, and lighting systems, have limited useful lives and are, therefore, to be depreciated pursuant to GASB Statement No. 34. In the past, school districts, like governments in the United States generally, have not accounted for the resources that depreciate with use. Unless governments systematically account for depreciation-unless INFRASTRUCTURECOSTS AND GASB STATEMENT NO. 34 43 they explicitly recognize that capital is being consumed- they will tend to underinvest in physical plants and allow physical facilities to deteriorate.

Department of Commerce. S. Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes, and distributes education statistics. While the surveys are in progress, Congress routinely makes changes in the programs, funding levels, purposes, and even titles of federal education programs. For example, more than half of the programs in 1980 had been combined into block grants or discontinued by 1990. Similarly, new state and federal initiatives may have special instructions for reporting the appropriate classification of the revenues and expenditures.

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