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California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Bureau of School Apportionments and Reports. – 1976
This report analyzes the impact of California's 1972 Senate Bill 90 and 1973 Assembly Bill 1267 as they have affected public school finance in California. The portions of SB 90 and AB 1267 that pertain to operating school districts contain general property tax rollback and revenue limit features, as well as mechanisms designed to lessen the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, School District Spending
NEA Res Bull, 1969
Descriptors: City Government, Educational Finance, Financial Policy, School Funds
Stewart, Gerald – 1981
Three lengthy tables and four charts present information on the 1981-82 planned tax effort of each of Pennsylvania's 501 school districts and 67 counties. The tax effort, or "equalized mills," equals each district's budgeted taxes divided by its projected 1981 market value. The report gives a brief illustration of how the tax effort…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Elementary Secondary Education, Fiscal Capacity, Graphs
Wilson, Laval S. – 1978
Implications of some specific educational trends and their possible impact on the institutional structure of public schools are discussed. These trends are grouped under the categories of public criticism, finance and governance, and labor management friction in the schools. Central in this discussion are the future ramifications of Proposition 13…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Saily, Mary, Ed.; And Others – Educational R&D Report, 1980
In the first article of this report, a discussion is presented of the increasing tensions between fiscal conservatives and education reformers. While educational equity is mandated by the federal government, states frequently have difficulty in complying with satisfactory programs because of growing resistance to taxes to support the schools.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Odden, Allan; And Others – 1976
This booklet discusses past and anticipated legislative activities in school finance, court actions, and research issues. It is divided into three major sections. The first covers the major school finance events of 1976 for selected states, the anticipated major events of 1977, and court actions. The second section covers the dominant issues that…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Policy
Thompson, Lawrence H. – 1974
One way in which the analysis of educational finance reform might be broadened to include an analysis of the fiscal effects of such reform is to show fiscal competition between large cities and their suburbs. It is not possible to say that "most central cities" or "most suburban areas" deserve a greater share of State…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Research, Equalization Aid
Myers, Will S.; And Others – 1971
This study analyzes the self-help capabilities of the States to equip themselves with a highly productive State-local revenue system that could underwrite a major share of school costs. The present state-local revenue system is said to be impaired in its productivity and equity by: (1) the regressive impact of property, general sales, and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid, Local Government
Adams, Phillip L.; Spiegelman, Robert G. – 1965
This report discloses that, since the passage of Public Law 874 in 1950, about 2,000 districts or 20 percent of all districts receiving entitlement under the law in 1952-64 experienced some federal installation phaseouts. The study indicates that only in a small percentage of these districts were the effects of the phaseout sufficient to cause…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Expenditures, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC. – 1971
The Province of New Brunswick, Canada, as part of a mammoth reshuffling of provincial-local relationships, established an Equal Opportunity Program and took over the entire burden of financing public elementary and secondary education on January 1, 1967. On May 20, 1971, at a conference on State financing of public schools, questions about the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Federal Programs
Rhone, David H.; And Others – 1976
This handbook is designed to assist school board members and school administrators in dealing with school management issues and problems. The first chapter provides a historical review of public school finance. The next three chapters deal with the source of public education funding, the general nature of local taxing authority, and the manner in…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Finance, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
U.S. News & World Report, 1978
For years, U.S. classrooms have been trouble. Is a turnabout imminent? This article examines the subject in an eight-page, special report. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Finance, Educational Practices
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McCuen, John T.; Hoffland, Ginger – Change, 1978
With the passage of Proposition 13, California's community colleges lost an estimated two-thirds of their local revenues. As the largest such system, the Los Angeles Community College District is preparing for the hardest impact. Retrenchment, loss of local control, and legal difficulties are problems it faces. (JMD)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Higher Education
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Neufeld, John L. – National Tax Journal, 1977
Presents a model explaining voter behavior in educational tax rate referenda, arguing that increasing rejection of these referenda is explained by a narrowing gap between actual school expenditures and the level of expenditures voters regard as optimal. (JG)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Property Taxes
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Hornbostel, Victor O. – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
Discusses Oklahoma's school finance legislation of 1981, designed to promote fiscal neutrality among districts and vertical equity for students while maintaining a partnership between the state and local districts in financing education. Proposes total commitment by Oklahoma to percentage equalizing, noting that the revenue potential exists. (PGD)
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
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