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1967
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED IN DIFFERENT WAYS, BOTH WITHIN THE STATES AND FROM STATE TO STATE. IN SOME CASES SCHOOL DISTRICT STRUCTURE IS COTERMINOUS WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS AND IS "DEPENDENT" ON THEM. HOWEVER, 78 PERCENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS ARE IN "INDEPENDENT" SCHOOL DISTRICTS…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Metropolitan Areas
Hickrod, G. Alan Karnes-Wallis; And Others – 1987
Contemplation by the Illinois General Assembly of a new grant-in-aid system for school finance has suggested a review of educational finance in that state. Taxation maintaining support of public education since 1825 and the establishment of the first free schools are examined. The issue of local funding, the inequities caused by such funding due…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Warfield, Walter H.; And Others – 1978
Although the Illinois Farmland Assessment Act is not an educational finance reform but is designed to ease the increasing tax burden on the state's farmland and provide a uniform, state-wide method of farmland tax valuation, it has a significant impact on K-12 public school financing because of the relationship between property and public school…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Income
Download full textMcKenna, Jon F. – 1976
The shifting political milieu which surrounded and conditioned all of Illinois' educational endeavors in the half century after 1870 is discussed. Studies of those elements of society which have influenced the development of schools have often neglected the political milieu that affects educational policy-making at the state level. The political…
Descriptors: American History, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Lewis, James H. – 1995
The system for financing education in Illinois fails to deliver sufficient resources to the school districts that need them most. Although no individual or administrative unit acts to deprive particular groups, the system as a whole does. Using Census figures, state and local tax records and information from the Illinois Board of Education, this…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1997
This publication provides information on the sources and amounts of funds available for prekindergarten through postsecondary education in Illinois common schools for 1996-97. The guidebook contains a summary of fiscal-year 1997 appropriations to the Illinois State Board of Education, as well as appropriations for educationally related purposes…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Fiscal Capacity
Hickrod, G. Alan; Chaudhari, Ramesh B. – 1985
This paper evaluates the equity dimensions of a grant-in-aid system based on the Resource Cost Model (RCM), as proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education. The first section is an independent evaluation of the conceptual and legal aspects of the RCM, focusing on both the weaknesses and the strengths of the model. In the second section, an…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform
