Suggests that the difficulty in determining if public higher education promotes more or less inequality may be overcome by applying Becker's analytical framework for explaining income distribution to the structuring and interpreting of expenditure tax incidence studies. A case study is presented, which indicates the system does not have an…

In this article we have outlined our conception of substantive reform in educational finance, discussed the potential contribution of the court cases, and described the kings of fiscal and political constraints that face reformers. (Authors)

The authors, members of the staff of the governor of Michigan, provide more details of the proposed revenue sharing plan to reform educational finance in Michigan. (AN)

The meaning of the breakthrough Serrano decision on property taxes and events that have followed. (Author)

This study shows that State taxes provide a more equitable means of supporting schools than do local taxes. (JF)

Excerpts from speech given at the Annual Conference of the Ohio State Vocational Education Staff, Nov. 1968.

This discussion of educational finance highlights the six-fold increase in the cost of education since 1959; changes in the state, local, and federal proportions of school funding; the importance of education in the total economy; and the effect of changing public policy on revenues for education. (SK)

Effects on programs in health, physical education, recreation, and dance of the 1978 Jarvis-Gann proposition reducing property taxes are documented. (MJB)

Tests an interest-group model of public spending by using variations in spending levels across states and counties. Results provide support for this model, in that education spending increases as the number of parents in the electorate increases. An analysis of Texas counties shows that areas with relatively large elderly populations spend less on…

Given the lean times in education today, a coordinated fund-raising effort could highly benefit public K-12 education. An office of development could coordinate grant writing, interaction with foundations, corporate partnerships, the development of endowed chairs, and individual fund raising and manage local fund raisers. Development follows three…

In this article, the author discusses the "faith-based" initiative, unveiled by President George W. Bush after taking office in 2001, that restricts hiring of federally funded religious groups to members of their own faith. In Bradford County, the new "faith-based" approach translated into a contract diverting a combination of…

Fiscal federalism can be an important complement to structural reforms and budget consolidation. Empowering sub national governments, while at the same time making them accountable to local citizens in the uses of tax money, could improve the allocation of public resources and promote catch up of the lagging regions. Italy has launched itself in…

The question of whether there should continue to be subsidy for magazines and newspapers through low second class postal rates (eliminated by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970) is examined in light of First Amendment objectives of an informed electorate. Judicial remedy is deemed unlikely and legislative reconsideration of such subsidy…