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Mueller, Van D. – 1993
This paper examines the effects of spending variations among Missouri school districts on educational opportunity and quality. In an analysis of six matched pairs of Missouri school districts, each higher spending district was compared with a lower spending district of similar size. Data were derived from document analysis and interviews with the…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality
Wendling, Wayne R. – 1981
This study discusses whether two tax programs instituted by local communities in Michigan to generate local economic activity have adversely affected local public elementary and secondary school financing. Analysis of the effects on school funding of The Plant Rehabilitation and Industrial Development Law of 1974 and its expansion in Act 255 of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Needs, Financial Problems
Oregon State Legislature, Salem. Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1974
This report examines the current school finance system in Oregon and recommends changes to make the system more equitable and less subject to variations in local property wealth. After briefly describing the inequities of the present system, most of the report discusses the committee's legislative recommendations and their probable impact. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Musmanno, Lucile; Stauffer, Alan C. – 1974
This report is designed to familiarize the reader with current changes in State systems of public school finance. It describes in summary form the major school finance changes made in 1973 by Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, and Wisconsin. State legislative sessions in these States produced…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equal Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform
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Cohen, Matthew C. – Journal of Education Finance, 1983
An analysis of the relationship between district wealth and tax effort concludes that, while state aid is generally equalizing, the school funding structure is a dual system in which state aid is almost randomly spent in outlier districts. It is inferred that outliers translate guaranteed state aid into lower local taxes. (MJL)
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Fiscal Capacity
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Weaver, Sue Wells; Parent, T. Wayne – Urban Education, 1994
Examines local politics, economics, and other factors contributing to the results of the 1987 and 1992 tax elections in a Louisiana city-parish. Results suggest that proponents of educational agendas should couch propositions in terms of developmental policies, because all socioeconomic segments tend to support development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Inner City, Political Attitudes, Political Influences
Herrington, Carolyn D.; Nakib, Yasser A. – 1993
This paper presents an overview of Florida's fiscal status and the state of its educational fiscal reform. Five areas of concern are identified regarding educational finance--adequacy of funding, educational reform initiatives including accountability, equity, alternative tax sources, and communication. These issues indicate a highly unstable…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Strauss, Robert P. – 1990
A description and analysis of two failed local finance reform efforts in Pennsylvania between 1987 and 1989--a blue ribbon tax reform commission and a state constitutional amendment--are presented in this report. Constraints imposed during the reform design stage and two political "tar pits"--household/business proportion of local taxes,…
Descriptors: Blue Ribbon Commissions, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ladd, Helen F.; Wilson, Julie Boatright – 1982
This paper uses data from a large statewide survey of Massachusetts residents to measure support for Proposition 2 1/2. Proposition 2 1/2 required high tax rate communities to reduce property tax levies 15 percent per year until the tax rate is reduced to the maximum allowable rate of 2 1/2 percent of full and fair market value. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Support, Community Surveys, Educational Finance
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1981
State and local tax performance in the United States and in the South and implications for the financing of public higher education are considered. It is suggested that despite apparent gains in state tax revenues, little overall growth in real terms has been experienced in the region and nation in recent years, nor can much be expected in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economic Climate, Educational Finance, Financial Policy
Tamura, Don – 1978
Proposition 13 (Jarvis-Gann Initiative) and its impact on higher education and students are analyzed in this report prepared by the National Student Association. The initiative, passed in California in 1978, fixed property taxes at one percent and allowed the level to rise by two percent annually. It is suggested, however, that the beneficiaries…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Students, Educational Finance, Finance Reform
Hale, Jim – 1974
This report provides an overview of the State school aid distribution plan passed by the New Mexico legislature in 1974. The previous school finance plan, passed in 1969, and the problems school districts experienced under that plan are briefly described, followed by a discussion of the 1974 legislation. The new plan is a weighted-pupil formula…
Descriptors: Average Daily Membership, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Clinchy, Evans – 1970
The concept of schools that pay for themselves by sharing facilities with other occupants is known variously as joint occupancy or mixed or multiple use of land and buildings. A financial saving is the obvious advantage of combining schools with housing, commercial space (retail or office), or community services and offices. In addition, joint…
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Cultural Influences, Educational Facilities Design, Land Use
Peterson, George E., Ed. – 1973
Nine experts examine the nature and administration of the property tax, analyzing its effects on educational opportunity, land use, racial residential patterns, central city finance, neighborhood deterioration, and low income housing. The so-called circuit-breaker, a form of property tax relief that has rapidly come into widespread use, is viewed…
Descriptors: City Government, Court Litigation, Economic Research, Educational Finance
Busch, Carolyn; Tychsen, Anita – 1997
During 1996-97 each of the three branches of Wisconsin State government--the judiciary, the executive, and the legislative--experienced substantial activity regarding educational finance policies. After describing Wisconsin's current school-finance system, this paper examines Wisconsin school finance based on the 1996-97 actions of the judiciary,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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