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Missouri State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Jefferson City. – 1982
A study analyzed the component parts of existing formulae to distribute federal vocational monies to secondary level programs in Missouri. Among the areas examined were the relative weight of the factors influencing distribution of funds and the extent to which each factor contributes to the final array depicting the total distribution of federal…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Needs, Financial Support
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1977
Empirical data and staff opinions were gathered to determine the enrollment of Mexican immigrant/alien students in the Rio Grande City Schools during the 1976-77 school year and their impact on space utilization, educational programming, staffing, and funding. Eleven staff members, representing administrators, principals, teachers, and counselors,…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Needs, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Atherton, Peter J. – 1979
The great similarity between the Canadian and American structures of school finance conceals some fundamental, constitutional, and structural differences that shape the trends in Canadian school finance. First, provincial governments exercise a high degree of centralized control over education and its finance. Second, provincial governments have…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance
Cooper, Bruce S.; And Others – 1980
A new argument is made for school finance equalization, based not on "equal protection" or "equal educational opportunity," but on constitutional requirements for tax equity in New Hampshire. Since inequalities in school finance are a taxation problem, they call for tax reform. The analyses rest on four points: (1) that…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Hickrod, G. Alan; Hubbard, Ben C. – 1968
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…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Equalization Aid
Zoglin, Mary Lou – 1977
This paper reviews the rationale for community services education and the effects of different methods of financing adult education programs. Two case studies of community services financing in California are reported to illustrate different approaches toward financing permissible under state statute. The College of San Mateo finances its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Colleges, Community Services
Puryear, David L. – 1974
Public schools in New Jersey are financed primarily by local property taxes. This system of finance is unconstitutional, according to the New Jersey Supreme Court, and therefore it must be revised. The proposals for revision range from very slight increases in state school aid to complete state financing of schools, but all of the proposals shift…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Hickrod, G. Alan; And Others – 1975
A 1973 Illinois school finance reform program initiated a guaranteed tax yield system that can also be considered a district power equalization system. This paper evaluates this reform according to four criteria: permissable variance, fiscal neutrality, reward for effort, and aid to urban areas. Emphasis is given to a discussion of legal and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
Flora, Jan L. – 1974
Like all capitalist nations which have gone through a development process, the United States has relied partly on the rural-to-urban transfer of resources for the growth of an industrialized urban complex. The existence of a market-dominated rural sector and a noncompetitive (administered-price) urban sector has resulted in a major transfer of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Federal Legislation, Human Capital
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
Ottina, John R. – 1974
In this paper, the author examines the Federal role in the financing of schools given the facts of rising costs, pressure for greater equalization, court rulings that clearly place basic responsibility for financing of public education in the hands of the State, and given severe limitations on Federal funds. Matters considered include Federal…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Equal Education
Marland, S. P., Jr. – 1972
In this document, the author identifies the principal issues in school finance that need to be confronted and resolved. The text proposes no answers; but, rather, stimulates broad discussion and understanding of the issues as a first step toward consensus on an appropriate federal role. The author examines traditional sources of school funds and…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Efficiency
Furse, Bernarr S. – 1973
This paper provides background information relating to a school finance reform movement in Utah and describes the passage of a 1973 bill that provides a power equalizing system to redistribute excess revenue from local taxes in combination with State uniform school funds for a guaranteed program to all districts. The law should bring the level of…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Schools
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Advisory Committee on School Finance. – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
Levin, Betsy; Muller, Thomas – 1973
This study documents the revenue and expenditure patterns for categories of school districts and for individual school districts. The fiscal impact of the current system, the nature and extent of fiscal disparities, and the factors that contribute to the disparities are examined. An attempt is made to distinguish between disparities among…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student