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Peer reviewedHarris, Marshall A. – Planning and Changing, 1974
Florida's new school finance formula is characterized by a three mills power equalization scheme on top of a Strayer-Haig foundation plan. Finance legislation is predicated on the intent to equalize educational opportunity while increasing the authority and responsibility of districts for deciding matters of instructional organization and method.…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Download full textMintz, Steven – 1973
On June 26, 1973, the system for financing elementary and secondary education in Florida was radically altered when the Florida legislature passed the Florida Education Finance Program Act of 1973. Significant features of this act include (1) substantially increased fiscal equalization; (2) a systematic plan and substantial State commitment to…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Equal Education
Carroll, Stephen J. – 1979
Part of a three-volume report on the effects of school finance reform, this volume summarizes principal findings of the studies presented in the other volumes. The report summarizes school finance reforms enacted between 1972 and 1974 in California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, and New Mexico. It recounts what happened to school taxing and spending…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
McMaster, Donald; Sinkin, Judy G. – 1977
This manual provides an introduction to the system of financing elementary and secondary education in Florida. School finance reform in Florida, the paper notes, has been considered a success primarily due to a grouping of conditions that created an atmosphere conducive to reform. Chapter 1 explains how the state's education finance plan operates…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student, Finance Reform
Carroll, Stephen J. – 1979
Part of a three-volume report on the effects of school finance reform, this volume examines reform efforts in California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, and New Mexico. Data on districts' tax rates, wealth, and number of pupils were obtained from state sources. Data on household income, percent urban, percent white, and percent poverty were obtained…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1977
This paper discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of three alternative philosophical and practical approaches for the equitable distribution of state aid to local school districts. These three approaches include the "equity through uniformity" approach, implemented through a Full State Assumption school finance model; the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
