A comprehensive view of resource allocation requires the realization that educational resources are nonhomogeneous, can be allocated in meaningful ways at different levels and by different decision makers, and can be substituted for one another within certain boundaries. Students determine whether resources are actually used to produce educational…

Including nonpurchased resources and differences in school sizes in the calculation of educational costs provides evidence that inequities exist in distribution of resources in New York State school districts. (JW)

Classroom observation and parent interviews in 18 elementary school districts in suburban Chicago (Illinois) tested an economic model of the impact of differing administrator, parent, teacher, and student perceptions of costs on teachers' allocation of resources in the classroom. Research results and administrative implications are presented.…

Designed to serve as an introduction to research currently being conducted on behalf of the Task Force into implications for rural schools of the Levittown decision, the primary purpose of this report is to provide background information and to provoke discussion about fiscal problems in rural areas. Two sections provide historical as well as…