This study projects estimates of changes in State tax patterns resulting from the implementation of a modified foundation grant and a percentage equalizing grant. The resulting estimates show increased progressivity of the State tax structure under both types of grants. (Author)

It is asserted that conventional school finance analysis must address itself to the social realities of politics and dealing with state legislatures, thus disputing some of the theses offered by Daniel C. Morgan in a previous article. (EH)

Analyzes 1990-91 school finance data for six New England states. Examines state support for local education, distribution of state aid in relation to local wealth differences, these policies' effect on funding equity for local taxpayers, and the relationship between taxpayer equity and per-pupil spending disparities. Only Maine and Vermont have…

This study of five metropolitan areas indicates increasing social and economic inequalities among suburban schools. In addition, the metropolitan areas seemed to be developing contiguous sectors of "advantaged" school districts and "disadvantaged" school districts. Financial differences are at the base of the inequalities, with high income/low tax…

This paper (1) provides background on types of State aid to education and describes how they work, (2) discusses the existing expenditure structure in Illinois, (3) describes and analyzes the fixed foundation (Strayer-Haig), variable foundation, percentage equalization, and resource equalizer formulae used for equalization aid in the United…

This document consists of a series of papers by different authors on the subject of school finance and equal educational opportunity. The papers discuss equalizing educational opportunity by means of a resource equalizer or guaranteed valuation grants-in-aid; the impact of changing school finance on metropolitan areas; and three types of…

Describes model, data, results, and implications of a study attempting to clarify two issues previously overlooked in studies of financing public education with local property taxes: (1) that regionally aggregated data may bias test results, and (2) that local fiscal response to grant programs may vary with the wealth of school districts. (SB)

This document contains papers on: (1) proposals for national foundation programs; (2) state support of education; (3) tax reform at Federal, state, and local levels; and (4) contemporary problems in school finance, including equal educational opportunity, urban school finance, grants-in-aid, Federal income tax rebates to the States, voter behavior…

A NEW BASIC CONCEPT IN FINANCING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IS THE CHANGE FROM VIEWING SCHOOLS AS "STANDARDIZED-OPPORTUNITY-SYSTEMS" TO SEEING THEM AS "DIFFERENTIATED-OUTPUT-ACCOUNTABILITY-SYSTEMS." THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM OF FINANCE, REQUIRING A SUPPLY OF ANALYTICAL STUDIES TO GUIDE DECISIONMAKERS, WOULD HAVE THREE MAIN…

A reform in the grant-in-aid system passed in Illinois in the summer of 1973 was evaluated. The State Changed on that date from a foundation system to a district power equalization system. Operational definitions of fiscal policy goals, such as fiscal neutrality and permissible variance of expenditures, were established and measurements taken…