This publication provides a brief overview of significant New York State laws and regulations relating to local government records. A number of additional laws and regulations contain references to specific local records and their required retention. However, this report does not contain references to legal opinions and court decisions, nor does…

To provide more equitable special education services for blind, deaf, physically handicapped, and autistic children in all parts of Oregon, a funding formula was developed at the direction of the 1981 state legislative assembly. The formula is based on development of a state approved funding level by handicap and by instructional delivery system…

The many small steps that States seem willing to take now to reduce inequity in school spending may, a decade hence, look remarkably similar to the big jump no State dares to make. Full State funding may then have happened after all. (Author)

Alaska became suddenly and surprisingly rich in the early 1980s, with oil revenues from Prudhoe Bay paying for almost all state operations, picking up some of the costs of local government, creating a huge state savings account, paying all Alaskans annual cash dividends, and eliminating the need for state personal income taxes. The smaller…

One of 10 documents developed by the Preschool Program of the Putnam/Northern Westchester (NY) Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the document is a summary of a June, 1981, institute on the efficacy of early childhood education for the handicapped. The institute was intended to provide state legislators, county executives, education…

This annual report contains information on the federal funding of the research and development (R&D) components of the agency programs as proposed for the fiscal year 2002. Research and development data are classified into the same federal budget function categories as those used in the "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year…

This report contains information on the federal funding of research and development (R&D) components of agency programs as proposed for the fiscal year (FY) 2001-2003. Research and development data are classified into the same federal budget function categories as those used in "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year…

This annual report contains information on federal funding of research and development for fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997. Data in the tables of this report were derived from the Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development for Fiscal Years 1995, 1996, and 1997. They reflect research and development funding levels as reported by 33 federal…

This paper provides current information about the funding of Washington's K-12 school finance system. Schools in Washington State derive most of their revenues from state sources. In response to a 1977 court ruling, 'Seattle v. State of Washington', the state assumed responsibility for funding "basic education" for a "uniform system…

This annual report contains information on the federal funding of the research and development components of agency programs as proposed by the administration for fiscal year 2001. Research and development data are classified into the same federal budget function categories as those used in the "Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year…

Discusses the implications of recent educational finance court cases. (JF)

This report covers only the past year (1989) but the changes and events it describes began in August 1987 with the approval of the Local Government Records Law (Ch. 737, Laws of 1987), which took effect in August 1988. That law consolidated and updated New York's legal requirements pertaining to local government records management. It required…

An examination of school finance reform and collective bargaining concludes that the significant factors are greater state involvement in fiscal support, fiscal reform, and more centralized bargaining. (Author/DW)

The governor of Oregon, addressing the American Association of Community College Trustees, recommends local election of trustees, local control and state financing of community colleges, student (but not faculty) representation on boards of trustees, open board meetings, financial aid for children of middle-income families, student tuition, and…

South Carolina has enacted a comprehensive act that contains more than 40 new programs and a comparable number of improvements in existing programs. Cites 26 elementary school reforms that will be phased in by 1989. (MLF)