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Support for Public Education in a Racially Changing Suburb
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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
Toward Equality of Educational Opportunity: Sharing Commercial and Industrial Tax Revenue
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Haskell, Mark A. – Urban Education, 1977
Discusses the effects of commercial-industrial tax-sharing in New Castle County, Delaware. Implementing the concept of tax sharing could help to equalize educational opportunity between wealthier and poorer school districts. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Finance Reform
State Financing of Public Schools: Policies and Prospects.
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Ornstein, Allan C. – Urban Education, 1988
Examines state revenue sources. Discusses the economic, demographic, and political factors affecting state spending over the past two decades. Predicts that the 1990s will be characterized by annual increases in educational spending that are far less than the expected rate of inflation. (FMW)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education