What is happening in one Westchester town is happening all over the country. Hard pressed suburban voters are saying No to higher school taxes. (Editor)

A Pennsylvania school district was faced with increased costs and a decline in revenue from construction and real estate taxes. Using a computer graphing program that produced four-color graphs and charts that were then converted to 35 millimeter slides, the budget story was presented at town meetings, and the school board approved a 16 percent…

This report is designed to help the average school district voter, the new school board member, the PTA participant, and the civic organization member understand the operation of State aid distribution to the school districts of New York State. The publication provides a simplified version of the Educational Finance Task Force Proposal that was…

Financial data of the 1992-93 school year were collected from 86 of the 99 surveyed Class C school districts in Montana, which range in size from 56 to 484 students in Grades K-12. This report consists almost entirely of data tables providing information on enrollment, taxable valuation, guaranteed tax base per mill, general fund budget,…

This report presents data on enrollments, levies, budgets, costs per pupil, and teacher salaries in 82 of Montana's 98 small rural (Class "C") school districts for fiscal year 1993-94. The average enrollment was 143 students in elementary schools and 68 students in high schools. Costs per pupil to the general fund budget without special…

This report presents data on budgets, levies, enrollments, costs per pupil, and teacher salaries in Montana's small rural (Class "C") school districts for fiscal year 1996-97. Data are based on survey responses from 86 of the 98 public schools and 3 of the 5 private schools in the Class "C" category. The range of Class…

This report presents data comparing budgets, levies, and enrollments of small, rural schools (Class "C") in Montana for fiscal year 1994-95. The average enrollment of 56 elementary schools was 136 students; the average enrollment of 56 high schools was 70 students. The average total enrollment of Class "C" schools was 190…

The success of Proposition 13 in California gave impetus to similar tax limitation efforts in other states. Information included in this booklet is intended to help local, state, and federal education finance policy-makers wrestling with this issue. The first section summarizes efforts in each state to limit taxation and expenditure both by…

This report presents data on enrollments, budgets, levies, costs per pupil, and teacher and staff salaries in Montana's smallest (Class "C") school districts for 2002-03. Class C indicates high school enrollment of 130 students or less. Surveys were received from 69 of 93 public schools and 1 of 5 nonpublic schools in the category. The…

This report presents data on budgets, levies, enrollments, costs per pupil, and teacher salaries in Montana's smallest (Class "C") school districts for fiscal year 1999-2000. Survey responses were received from 78 of the 94 public schools and 2 of the 5 nonpublic schools in the Class C category. The range of Class C enrollments was…