Legal files for establishment and alteration of school districts and vocation education and extension boards, 1873-1971.

ArchivalResource

Legal files for establishment and alteration of school districts and vocation education and extension boards, 1873-1971.

The division used these files to verify school district size for use in calculating state financial aid due. The series was maintained by a succession of units having responsibility for the apportionment of state financial aid to schools: Statistics Section in the Administration Division, c1911-1923; Statistics Bureau, 1923-1938 (transferred from Administration Division to Finance Division in 1928); Bureau of Apportionment, 1938-1954; Division of School Financial Aid, 1955-1964; and Division of Educational Finance after 1964.

15 cu. ft.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8282376

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

New York (State). Education Dept.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zx2bwc (corporateBody)

New York State's education system has antecedents in both English and Dutch colonial education. The Dutch, concerned with providing widespread general education, established tax-supported common schools under church and state control in most of New Netherland's communities. Under the English, who established a system of private or church-supported academies, emphasis was placed on advanced education of the elite and the common school system of the Dutch all but disappeared. In 1754 ...

New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Educational Finance.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv4rkt (corporateBody)

University of the State of New York

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz64g6 (corporateBody)