The Harambee schools make up 75 percent of all secondary schools in Kenya, but only 7 percent of students enrolled in the University of Nairobi have attended these schools. Describes a typical Harambee school in Uvumbi and discusses serious problems schools are experiencing throughout Kenya, despite correct recognition that education is major…

The future of computers in education today will be similar to that of television in education 30 years ago, unless educators begin to play a major role in bringing computer technology into the schools to stay. (MD)

Presents the results of a survey on school finance taken among education professionals. The questions asked cover such areas as priority of expenditures, revenue sources, adequacy of funding, length of schooling, and State vs local control. (Author/DN)

Comments on the upcoming Supreme Court decision in the Rodriquez case. (JF)

This article provides a critiques of the education voucher plan described in EA 500 970. (JH)

Describes and argues for the California Initiative for Family Choice, a voucher plan proposed for the state of California. (IRT)

This year's Gallup Poll respondents see inadequate funding as public schooling's biggest problem. Nearly half (47%) positively evaluated public school performance. About 70% feel that values education is important; 75% disagree with last year's Supreme Court ruling declaring government-sanctioned prayer at public school commencement ceremonies…

When the Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inadequate. Traces the district's process of moving to a system of student-based budgeting linking funding equity and flexibility to accountability and excellence. (MLF)

Unless educators can develop a realignment or consensus of the beliefs of the various interest groups in the nation who must financially and spiritually support public education, the level of interest in providing adequate funds may not be sufficiently strong to meet the need. (Author)

Suggests that the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on educational finance has only shifted the major battles for finance reforms from the courts to the State legislatures and the U. S. Congress. (JF)

Suggests that proposed education voucher systems may not serve as a panacea for the nation's educational ills. (JH)