This study is the first to empirically examine how school districts allocate resources in response to capital investment revenue from statewide penny sales taxes (called SAVE funds), and whether SAVE funds affect student outputs (i.e., educational achievement). We found evidence that school districts do not use SAVE funds to increase capital…

A major feature of the school finance landscape over the last two decades has been the reform of state school finance systems. Using the case of Maryland's Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act, this paper extends the current literature by developing a conceptual framework for residential bidding and sorting and using it to estimate housing…

The survey on hot topics was added in 2007 to the annual survey of state directors of community colleges conducted by the University of Alabama Education Policy Center. The survey data provided an opportunity for examining the personal attitudes toward the hot topics and the associations between these attitudes and state contexts. This study finds…

This discussion of educational finance highlights the six-fold increase in the cost of education since 1959; changes in the state, local, and federal proportions of school funding; the importance of education in the total economy; and the effect of changing public policy on revenues for education. (SK)

Effects on programs in health, physical education, recreation, and dance of the 1978 Jarvis-Gann proposition reducing property taxes are documented. (MJB)

State education policymakers, polled about potential school finance problems for the 1980s, ranked changes in state general aid formulas and changes in the tax structure for education at the top of seven subject areas. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the impact of citizen revolt against taxes and governmental spending on community colleges in relation to recent state legislative developments, focusing on the states in which community colleges rely heavily on local tax support. Considers effects on community college autonomy and growth. (MB)

Describes New York State's experience with school district tax limits in urban districts serving less than 125,000. Originally designed to protect taxpayers, these tax limits have spawned a costly state aid system that raises serious equity issues. Recent legislation removed tax limits and made state aid more equitable. (32 references) (MLH)

Reviews formula funding in higher education literature, including purpose, historical perspectives, definition and development, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and future trends. In light of citizen demands, the formula approach seems the best method to ensure a satisfactory relationship between state government and state…

Provides a further examination of nonresidential expanded tax base (ETB) approaches to school finance. Disagrees with Townsend's optimism that more equitable distribution formulas can be found in existing state aid systems, and with Townsend's concern that the specification of distribution formulas will be subject to political manipulation.…

Discusses four themes in the efforts to secure public support for private education: (1) to save private schools from disappearing; (2) to preserve benefits already received; (3) to gain benefits wrongfully denied; and (4) to effect reform via support for private schools. (JOW)

Four major concerns regarding functional responsibilities in American cities are examined in this paper. Implications of the findings suggest reducing the scope of the old, northeastern cities and transferring functions to other levels of government. (Author/RLV)

Describes tax increment financing (TIF), an entrepreneurial strategy with significant fiscal implications for overlapping taxing jurisdictions that provide these functions. Statistical analysis of TIF's impact on the finances of one Illinois county's school districts indicates that municipal use of TIF depletes the property tax revenues of schools…

Discusses Milwaukee's (Wisconsin) use of public tax dollars to finance private education and what the implications are for public schools. Examines how the controversial concept got started, its support in the courts, and the pros and cons of its implementation on public schools relative to the school-choice debate. (GR)

Simulation of the effects of five selected fiscal constraint programs was compared. The authors conclude that fiscal limits are unlikely to have large effects on a state's total economic activity, and any impacts may be negative. The revenue sources and expenditures most affected are policy decisions; education is a significant loser under…