PAIRING OF SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY ILLUSTRATES THAT CITY'S COMMITMENT TO THE IDEA OF ACTUAL INTEGRATION. THE PROGRAM BROADENS THE CONCEPT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL INTO A COMMUNITY SCHOOL. THERE SEEM TO EXIST AT PRESENT IN PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN CERTAIN TENDENCIES WHICH HAVE ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES. FIRST IS THE STEREOTYPING OF ETHNIC…

NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS HAVE LONG BEEN A PART OF COMMUNITY PLANNING, HOWEVER, A PRIMARY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE OF THESE SCHOOLS IS SEGREGATION. THE SCHOOLS IN THE LOW ECONOMIC AREAS ARE SLIGHTED, AND THE CHILD IN THESE SCHOOLS IS SURROUNDED WITH PUPILS WHO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS HE HAS, THUS PROVIDING LITTLE MOTIVATION FOR IMPROVEMENT. SOME…

This address focuses on the topic of open admissions and its implications for policies and procedures. A discussion, defining terms like excellence, equality, and open admissions, initiates a brief examination of issues such as institution-based and individual-based barriers to posesecondary schooling, the organization of college admissions--its…

Describes an effort to provide alternatives in education within the public school framework. (Author/DN)

A statewide survey in Illinois collected data from homeless education service providers, focusing exclusively on the issues of residency and guardianship as barriers to the education of homeless children and youth. Additionally, remedies to these problems were analyzed and recommendations made. (38 references) (MLF)

AN EVALUATION OF PAST AND PRESENT PROGRAMS FOR ETHNIC DESEGREGATION, ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND PROPOSALS FOR FURTHER STEPS TO THAT END ARE PRESENTED. IN 1954, STEPS WERE TAKEN TO ANALYZE THE RACIAL MIXTURE OF THE SCHOOLS, BY 1958 A COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED ZONING, SITE SELECTION AND CONSTRUCTION, AND PUPIL REDISTRIBUTION TO IMPROVE…

The principal goals of the Institute were to implement equality of educational opportunity and school desegregation in eight Illinois communities, through the training of eight Community Teams, consisting of professional public school leaders and community leaders. The initial status of each community, the processes in which they engaged to…

Describes current practices in Illinois where a personnel reimbursement formula is used to finance special education. Summarizes the basic components of the Resource Cost Model (RCM), a complex school finance formula, and compares and contrasts RCM with Illinois' current method of financing special education. (MLF)

Discusses the implications of the Serrano vs Priest decision on the Illinois State school financing system. (JF)

Behavioral definitions are provided for the following four basic values that drive state educational policymaking: (1) choice; (2) efficiency; (3) equity; and (4) quality. How these values are distributed by the priorities of policymakers is discussed and illustrated through examination of the values of Illinois and Wisconsin. (SLD)

THE PROBLEM IN THE NEW ROCHELLE COMMUNITY WAS ONE THAT ALLOWED SEGREGATED SCHOOLS TO EXIST THROUGH THE "NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL" POLICY, WHERE CHILDREN WERE FORCED TO ATTEND THE SCHOOL IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. THE COMPLAINT ALSO STATED THAT THE LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UNDER QUESTION, WAS ATTENDED ONLY BY NEGRO CHILDREN, THAT THE TEACHING…

This study looks at the relationship between district wealth and revenues available for education in Illinois using a "conditional" conception of wealth neutrality that holds constant the operational tax rate. Data used were demographic data of Illinois school districts. An analysis of beta weights suggested an undesirable relationship…

This study attempts to show that the junior college, if it develops according to certain criteria, can achieve the accepted democratic ideals of education. The related literature, both national and state, has been reviewed. Discussed are such concepts as universal education as the promoter of democratic ideals and the alleviator of social,…

This monograph contains five presentations delivered during the course of an attempt made in November 1992 to amend the state constitution of Illinois in such a way as to make education a fundamental constitutional right. The effort failed to garner the 60 percent of the vote required to pass the amendment. These presentations made a strong…

Two essays are presented in this monograph, the first in a series of publications examining educational finance and using Illinois data. After an introduction, the first essay replies to a "Forbes" magazine cover story on educational finance that asks if education is economically efficient. The central theme is that the maintenance of a…