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Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
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Merisotis, Jamie P. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1991
A strengthened student aid partnership between the federal and state governments and colleges needs to use existing funds more efficiently, regulate how students receive aid more effectively, and delineate the rights and responsibilities of each of the major partners more adequately. Better cooperation would benefit taxpayers, institutions, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Efficiency
National School Boards Association, Washington, DC. – 1980
This document discusses major issues in urban school finance. It has been developed around four major sections. First, it reviews the role of the states in urban school finance, using published materials and documents from the Education Commission of the States. Second, it discusses recent developments in urban school finance litigation dealing…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Hauptman, Arthur M. – 1993
This report identifies a number of financing issues facing American higher education in the early 1990s, including: (1) the future federal role in postsecondary education in light of lagging participation rates of low-income and minority students and public concerns about many aspects of campus-based research; (2) the extent of state financial…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Needs, Financial Problems
Finifter, David H., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This book presents essays inspired by an October, 1988, conference on recent changes in the relationship between public policy and higher education. The essays appear in five sections, the first of which, titled "Looking Backward: The Historical Context of Public Policy and Higher Education," serves as a retrospective and prospective examination…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. School Buildings Administration. – 1982
The Alberta Department of Education administers a Building Quality Restoration Program (BQRP) that provides provincial government financial support to assist school boards in the following categories of school improvement: structural, mechanical, electrical, code requirements, upgrading of vocational and industrial educational equipment, school…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy Conservation
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Pickens, William H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Resources for higher education over the last 40 years are reviewed, with special emphasis on the abundance of the 1980s and crisis of the 1990s. Trends in government support are examined, and ways in which individual institutions can measure the adequacy of their resources to pursue their policy goals are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Change, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2001
[New England Resource Center for Higher Education's] NERCHE's think tank members recently participated in a discussion of the competitive forces driving change in higher education. The discussion, facilitated by The Futures Project: Policy for Higher Education in a Changing World (www.futuresproject.org), revealed tremendous concern among faculty…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Equal Education, Barriers
Breneman, David W. – 1993
This essay discusses the financial problems faced by higher education institutions in the United States and advances possible solutions to these difficulties. Colleges and universities in the 1990s are confronted with internal desires to expand services and programs, an absence of productivity gains, increasing costs for information and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Administration, Colleges, Decentralization
Parrish, Thomas B. – 1996
This monograph offers an overview of historical trends in the funding of special education programs, examines current issues, and considers directions for the future. After an introductory section, a section on historical perspectives notes trends in federal and state funding since 1975. A table shows the current funding formulas used by each…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Finance, Educational History, Educational Trends