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Download full textPresident's Commission on School Finance, Washington, DC. – 1972
This report examines the status of nonpublic education and makes recommendations for halting the enrollment decline in nonpublic schools. The report warns that should this enrollment decline continue, the social and economic costs to the nation will be too costly in comparison with the lesser costs for public intervention. The panel recommends…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Beales, Janet R. – 1994
To cut costs, some administrators are contracting with the private sector for such services as pupil transportation, facilities maintenance, and cafeteria operations. Proponents of competitive contracting assert that it can provide public schools with the kind of expertise, flexibility, and cost efficiencies not always available with inhouse…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics
Southern Education Reporting Service, Nashville, TN. – 1968
In this issue two of the articles are devoted to criticisms of compensatory education as an educational approach. Doxey A. Wilkerson feels that "make up" efforts "do not serve to realize that academic potential" of poverty children. Roger A. Freeman states that the recent enormous economic investment in educational improvement…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, College Preparation, Compensatory Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1971
In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Edward B. Fort, superintendent, Inkster Public Schools; Dr. Norman Drachler, former school superintendent, Detroit; Raymond Sreboth, superintendent, Benton Harbor Area Schools; Richard Ziehmer, superintendent, Covert Public Schools; Edward C. McKinney, superintendent, Baldwin…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1971
Contents of these hearings include the testimony of the following witnesses, as well as materials appended as pertinent to the hearings: (1) Lloyd Lewis, Jr., Chairman, Dayton City Planning Board and member of the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission's Housing and Human Resources Advisory Committee; (2) Dale F. Bertsch, Executive Director,…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Desegregation Methods, Educational Finance
DeMont, Roger, Ed.; And Others – 1973
This monograph summarizes recent developments in school law in the areas of school segregation, school finance, and interdistrict integration in order to project future developments in these areas. The content of this publication has been taken in part from transcripts of a conference on law and public education. (Detroit, Michigan, October 27,…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Conference Reports, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Watson, Bernard C. – 1972
If blacks are to have any hope of success in producing favorable social and political change, they must be extremely wary of having too narrow a focus. Blacks cannot waste time in the search for ideological purity, closing out those who happen not to agree on every detail of a specific program. Blacks, together with the other oppressed groups of…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Community, Black Education, Black Power
Carlson, Kenneth – 1972
Education directly determines life, liberty, and happiness for that segment of the population which can afford better educational facilities. For economically and socially disadvantaged people, education only perpetuates inequality. Financial inequality results in some school districts spending more money per student than other school districts.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Community Control, Compensatory Education
Mills, Nicolaus – 1972
As the history and statistics of busing indicate, the greatest demand for it has come from rural states, where population is scattered and the consolidated school district is typical. But urban and suburban areas have begun to use busing more heavily than before. Not only has busing become a safety factor in crowded urban areas or suburbs where no…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Finance
Ponessa, Joan M. – 1993
The New Jersey State government could reduce pupil transportation aid payments to local school districts by between $35 million and $50 million by eliminating support for questionable expenditures and by using the funding formula adopted in the Quality Education Act of 1990. This report describes how these dollar savings can be achieved. The major…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Educational Finance
Berty, Ernest – 1972
The major purpose of this report is to describe the strategy utilized in the West Virginia State Department of Education to overcome barriers to educational change in an organizational setting. The first part of the report describes two interventions, disposable organization (an ad hoc institution temporarily assembled to solve specific short-term…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Driver Education
SULLIVAN, NEIL V. – 1968
THE BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, PLAN FOR DESEGREGATING THE CITY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IS REVIEWED IN THIS REPORT. THE PLAN DEALS WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION, INSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS AND CHANGE, TRANSPORTATION, AND FINANCING REQUIREMENTS. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE CITY HAVE FOUR EXPANDED ATTENDANCE ZONES, EACH CONTAINING ONE SCHOOL WITH GRADES ONE…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Finance
New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education. – 1972
The five chapters of this summary report cover (1) the state of education in New York State, (2) financing education and Federal aid (two chapters), (3) racial and ethnic integration, and (4) aid to nonpublic schools. The report urges full State funding for education with the assistance of Federal aid to assure equal educational opportunity.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Fogel, Barbara R., Ed. – 1970
This is the report of a five-year plan to reorganize the Harrisburg public schools, designed to achieve the goals of educational excellence, racial balance, equity, stability, and economy if properly implemented. For example, the plan includes special centers from pre-kindergarten through second grade, and an educational plaza for grades 6 through…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Development, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
This booklet is issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in the Commission's hope that it can help "separate fact from fiction and dispel many of the unfounded fears that underlie the controversy so troubling the nation." The first section discusses the history and background of busing, showing that busing is a long established and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Bus Transportation, Educational Finance
