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Download full textNational Education Association, Washington, DC. Research Div. – 2003
This report describes a study aimed to help education advocates protect public schools and services from the effects of certain types of economic development subsidies. These subsidies include cutting companies' property taxes and granting long-term diversions of certain districts' property taxes to corporations making investment in those…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Corporations, Economics of Education, Educational Finance
Hughes, Mary F. – 1992
This report examines factors that contribute to the differences in local education funding, per pupil revenue, and local resident ability to support present and future educational services in West Virginia. Based on a variety of data generated during 1989-92, the study indicates: (1) the differences in support for local education are attributed to…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Rossmiller, Richard A. – 1987
This seventh chapter of "The Yearbook of School Law, 1986" summarizes and analyzes state and federal court decisions handed down in 1985 related to the financing of elementary and secondary education. The major topics examined are the use of public funds for private schools, the sources and allocation of public school funds, and school tax issues.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Parker, G. W.; Anderson, Dorothy – 1986
Concentrating on states' needs for programs offered by institutions of higher education (IHE) and the manner in which these needs can be met and financed, the 3-part paper analyzes the elements included by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" in its ranking of states' suppoort of higher education based on the results of the Chambers…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Expenditures, Financial Needs
McCarthy, John R.; And Others – 1983
The degree of public support for public higher education as measured in constant and current dollars in 1970 and 1980 is examined. Further analysis is made of the change from 1970 to 1980 according to the ratio of the percentage change in appropriations per student to the percentage change in income per student. Aggregate personal income by state…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Trends, Expenditure per Student
PDF pending restorationLadd, Helen F.; Wilson, Julie Boatright – 1982
This paper uses data obtained by a large statewide survey of Massachusetts residents to measure the relative importance of certain motivations in influencing the overall statewide vote on Proposition 2 1/2. Proposition 2 1/2 severely restricts the ability of Massachusetts cities and towns to raise tax revenue for local services. Interviews were…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Support, Community Surveys, Educational Finance
Brown, Diane, Ed.; And Others – 1981
Speeches, panel discussions, and a debate from the 1981 Oklahoma Conference on Education are presented. The topics of the speeches are: (1) administrative decision making in institutions of higher education and the effects of state legislation (Barbara Uehling); (2) experiences of an American hostage in Iran and subsequent feelings about the…
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation
Erickson, Donald A. – 1974
Nonpublic schools are a surprisingly salient channel for philanthropy in elementary and secondary education. As a result of philanthropy in nonpublic schools, the nation's total collectivity of schools is probably more efficient fiscally, more effective educationally, and more humane in its impact on students and parents than an exclusively public…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Change Strategies, Citizenship, Declining Enrollment
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Dept. of Research and Information Services. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Budgets, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Educational Legislation
Augenblick, John – 1978
Problems associated with state support for community colleges are discussed with particular emphasis on situations where local college districts are responsible for providing a portion of total institutional revenue. Three of these problems, relating to the equity and efficiency of how state aid is distributed, are: (1) the integration of direct…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Equalization Aid
Moots, Philip R.; Gaffney, Edward McGlynn, Jr. – 1979
A study on government regulation of religiously affiliated higher education was conducted for the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education. The following two questions were addressed: What legal problems arising from governmental regulation have religiously affiliated colleges experienced at least partially because of their religious…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Civil Rights, College Admission, College Housing
EGERTON, JOHN; LEESON, JIM – 1967
THE BIGGEST CHANGE WHICH RESULTED FROM THE CONSOLIDATION OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, INTO ONE GOVERNMENTAL UNIT WAS THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED SCHOOL SYSTEM. NOW, ALL BUT ONE MEMBER OF THE NEW METRO BOARD OF EDUCATION ARE NEW APPOINTEES, AS IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. UNDER THIS NEW LEADERSHIP BROAD CHANGES IN THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
Connecticut Commission to Study School Finance and Equal Educational Opportunity, Hartford. – 1975
The commission's findings indicate that Connecticut's present system of school finance is inherently inequitable. Because educational expenditures rely primarily on local wealth, Connecticut towns differ in their ability to support education and to provide equal educational opportunity for all students. In order to increase equality of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Zwerdling, A. L. – 1969
To meet the challenge of equal educational opportunity, current methods of public school finance must be revised. The present financial system, based on State equalization of local property tax valuation, is inequitable since it results in many school districts, particularly those in large cities, having inadequate resources to meet extraordinary…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Equal Education
