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O'Halloran, Charles – American Libraries, 1975
Federal funding for any good purpose, like libraries, is based upon no rational estimate of the actual value of that cause, or of its real need for money. (Author)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Libraries
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Collins, John N.; Downes, Bryan T. – Urban Education, 1975
In order to investigate how comparable to their white neighbors are black suburbanite perceptions of attitudes toward their new place of residence and its public schools and municipal government, data on black-white attitudes derived from an attitude survey conducted after school tax levy election in Spring 1973 were examined. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: City Government, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Public Schools
Olson, Gerald W.; And Others – 1973
This document evaluates the tax burden changes that occur as selected local service functions are shifted to State government. The primary emphasis is on the analysis of alternative systems on the residents of the two central cities of the standard metropolitan statistical area, Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. (NTIS)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Local Government
Hurst, Blake – American Enterprise, 1995
Argues why U.S. Judge Russell Clark, who is presiding over the Kansas City desegregation case "Jenkins v. Missouri," is an example of an imperial judiciary at its worst. The article explains how the cost of the judge's desegregation plan has adversely affected Missouri's budget for 18 years, has caused undue hardships on its population,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
HIRSCH, WERNER Z.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THIS STUDY DEVELOPED AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL SPILLOVERS, HAND-IN-HAND WITH A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS ARISING FROM PUBLIC SUPPORT OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION. EMPHASIS WAS ON WAYS IN WHICH SPILLOVERS MAY AFFECT LOCAL DECISION-MAKING. ABSTRACT CONCEPTS WERE DEVELOPED AND APPLIED TO…
Descriptors: Community Support, Decision Making Skills, Economics, Educational Finance
Nolan, Michael F.; And Others – 1979
To compare various socio-demographic indicators and attitudes on community issues of recent urban to rural migrants with those of native residents, personal interviews were conducted with an adult in 3391 households in the 5 county Meramec Area of Missouri during the fall of 1977. Of the respondents, 24% had lived in the county 7 years or less,…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Demography
Mueller, Van D. – 1993
This paper examines the effects of spending variations among Missouri school districts on educational opportunity and quality. In an analysis of six matched pairs of Missouri school districts, each higher spending district was compared with a lower spending district of similar size. Data were derived from document analysis and interviews with the…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality
Hubbell, L. Kenneth; And Others – 1973
This study evaluates the tax burden changes that occur as two local service functions, welfare and education, are shifted to State government financing. An analysis of alternative methods of such financing is undertaken, and the effects of these methods on the residents of the two central cities of Kansas City standard metropolitan statistical…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Local Government
Andrews, Earl Raymond – 1968
To assess the status of and need for vocational-industrial education within Jefferson county, and to provide a more objective basis for program and curriculum development, data were gathered on (1) employment opportunities within the labor market area, (2) student interests in vocational-industrial education, and (3) the financial potential of the…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs
Missouri State General Assembly, Jefferson City. Senate. – 1978
The inability of Missouri community college districts--which serve 54% of the state's population but cover only 17% of the state's area--to enlarge their property tax support base, pass capital bond issues, or to increase operational levies gave rise to a legislative study of four major issues: existing laws covering community colleges; the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Community Colleges, Delivery Systems