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Armenta, Richard R. – 1984
As public institutions, community colleges are dependent for their survival and continuity upon favorable evaluations by the external constituencies that finance the colleges. Underscoring the resource-dependent nature of community colleges are the revenue limitations brought about by declining enrollments, the effects of high costs, and taxpayer…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Role, Community Colleges, Governing Boards
Download full textMichigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1984
Developed by a team of strategists to help local school districts in Michigan win school millage elections, this manual details the factors that go into a successful election campaign. The campaign is broken into five phases: building a coalition, surveying and gathering information, developing a campaign theme and campaign plan, identifying and…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Organizations, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Issues
Woodside, William S. – 1985
School-business partnerships are flourishing across the country, but many schools and students are not being reached by these efforts. It is time now to look beyond the individual partnership programs and focus on systemwide issues in order to make the vast and fundamental improvements needed in public schools. Some corporate communities are…
Descriptors: Business, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Odden, Allan – 1990
After being placed on the back burner during the 1980s, school finance is again a major issue. In the 1970s, reliance on property taxes created school district disparities because of unequal tax bases. Legislative reforms enacted between 1971 and 1985 had the following characteristics: school finance formulas were revamped; the state role in…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Rossmiller, Richard A.; Rossmiller, Daniel M. – 1983
Cases related to school finance, in which decisions were handed down in 1982, are reviewed in this chapter. It is observed that the constitutionality of existing state school finance programs was upheld in New York, Colorado, and Georgia, and that litigation was prevalent in the areas of taxation for schools and uses of school revenue. Issues…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Administration, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Newbury, David N.; Farmakis, George – 1985
Designed for secondary school social studies teachers, this curriculum outline offers suggestions for teaching about the governance, cost, and sources of fiscal support for public education. Although the outline is specifically designed for use by teachers in Michigan, it can be adapted for use in any state. Arranged into five major sections,…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Federal Aid
