Federal aid programs in education and other areas first appeared as categorical grants, permitting resources to be concentrated on specific policy areas and allowing accountability on the part of grantees to be demanded. During recent years block grants and general purpose grants, permitting greater local control, have grown more popular, partly…

Provides an exploratory assessment of financial support levels in districts with different proportions of Black children in seven southern states. The range of support varied considerably among the states. (IRT)

Discusses factors affecting both school funding demand (including demographic changes and student needs) and the supply of educational funds (such as fiscal capacity and effort, state and local expenditures, and federal aid). Classifies states with favorable, average, and unfavorable funding prospects, based on state rankings for each factor. (RW)

This report is an annual collection of school district financial data. Specifically, this report presents analyses of school district revenues from the 1997-98 school year. The report is designed to address the following questions about the financing of public elementary and secondary education at the state and district levels: How much money per…

Changes in financial support patterns in four southern states over the course of major school desegregation were examined for the period from the late 1960s through the mid 1970s. The states included in the study were Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, those States with the largest proportion of black children in the country. The…