This report discusses some of the financial problems facing Colorado public schools. Fiscal reform recommendations designed to improve educational quality and to provide educational equality are offered to citizens and elected leaders. Education finance problems are discussed within the context of (1) the professional staff, (2) the educational…

Detailed information is provided on each of eight states included in a study of selected education finance characteristics. The eight states are Delaware, North Carolina, and Washington (States with a high level of state funding relative to total state-local funds for education); New York, Michigan, and California (moderate state aid states); and…

Among the major objectives of this study was the determination of the nature and extent of disparities in revenues and expenditures among a group of selected states, and among type of districts within and across these states. A common pattern in education finance characteristics was found within each type of district, particularly among central…