This document was written to inform middle-income whites about the financial problems schools are having and to elicit their reactions to suggested alternative ways by which schools could be financed. The document cites examples of school budget crises throughout the nation, presents a breakdown of present sources of school revenue, discusses how…

Ways in which communications about educational finance can be custom-tailored to particular social groups was the subject of this investigation. Four socioeconomic groups in Dayton, Ohio were selected for analysis: low income blacks, low income whites, upper income blacks, and upper income whites. Fifty individuals were selected from each group to…

This project was launched to discover if the communications gap between technical information about educational issues and lay consumption of the data could be breached. One of these issues, the financing of public education, was selected, and an investigation was launched to ascertain how written communications about educational finance could be…