Purposes of these hearings--held Sept. 1-3, 1971, in Washington, D.C.--were (1) to document the disparities between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan schools, (2) to present a picture of what rural education is like at the grass-roots level, and (3) to review some of the programs which have been designed to improve nonurban education. Witnesses…

Data concerning state-local systems of financing public education in Illinois reveal inequities across districts of different types as well as between districts of the same type. The procedure should be of value in appraising school finance inequities in states with diverse patterns of school district organization. (MLF)

School legislation is often designed to alter the fundamental structure of the public education system. Article describes elements of charter-school legislation and provides examples of strong and weak laws. Discusses California's experience to date with charter schools, issues to consider when assessing the implications of charter-reform…

Five articles comment on Chubb and Terry M. Moe's book "Politics, Markets, and America's Schools": (1) Choice in Education: Examining the Evidence on Equity; (2) Politics, Markets, and America's Schools: A Review; (3) Political Pollyannas; (4) Degrees of Imperfection: A Note from a Political Pollyanna; and (5) Thoughts on Choice. (SM)

The third of four technical reports on Oregon education finance, this report summarizes views of 44 opinion leaders in Oregon (including public officials, business leaders, educators, and journalists) on questions of education goals, quality, cost, and methods of decision-making. Answering questionnaires, the respondents first addressed issues of…

THE PROGRAM PURPOSE WAS TO LEARN THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEMS CHARACTERISTIC TO THE EDUCATION OF THE MIGRANT CHILD AND TO ACHIEVE BOTH A STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION AND A KNOWLEDGE OF CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY THAT WOULD MEET HIS NEEDS. THE PROJECT STRUCTURE WAS DEVELOPED TO LEARN ABOUT ORGANIZATION FOR ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS, FINANCIAL…

The symposium on the Financing of Quality Education was intended to initiate a dialogue in the Rochester-Monroe County, New York, area among professional educators, administrators, parents, businessmen, and experts in the field of educational finance and management. About 80 of the key players in the educational decision-making arena for this area…

This paper describes the historical background of New York State's system of education and then considers developments leading to the present system. The present system involves three levels of educational governance within a 2-level governance system. Activities at each of the three levels--local, intermediate, and State--are described in detail,…

The Minnesota Plan offers the kinds of major structural and delivery reforms (many adopted by Minnesota's legislature) that public education must undertake to achieve significant improvement: the restructuring of secondary education, the deregulation of the curriculum and instruction, the redesign of instruction and instructional management, and…

An important subset of issues involved in describing the process of educational globalization emerges when considering the reception, response and/or rejection of international proposals, ideologies and agents by indigenous national and regional educators. This case study describes and discusses how foreign/Western education proposals and policies…

This report, based upon the experiences of researchers visiting Hungary in summer 1994, highlights issues of the computability and adaptability of American community colleges to the developing Hungarian postsecondary educational system. The researchers visited with the representatives of the government and universities as well as with private…

Conclusions reached by the Illinois State Board of Education Study, released in May 1985, that small schools are inferior and inefficient, that Illinois has too many schools, and that over half its schools should be closed seem to be an educational step backward. Without linking the two concepts, the study implies that school consolidation will…

Wyoming's funding programs for public education that relate to the issues of sparsity and the state's attempt to provide equal educational opportunity are reviewed. School district problems that relate to the issue of sparsity are also discussed. School district size in Wyoming ranges from the smallest district, by area, of 186 square miles to the…

This is a study which sets forth the pertinent facts concerning the possible centralization of the school districts of Broadalbin, Edinburg, Mayfield, Northville, and Perth, located in New York State. An appraisal of advantages and disadvantages of certain possible courses of action is presented with cost estimates. There are 6 major parts of the…

This handbook on school finance is prepared to give the taxpayers of the state of Washington an overview of the financing and organization of the public schools, grades K-12. An attempt has been made to show in general terms where the revenues to support this segment of public education come from, how they are distributed to individual school…