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National Education Association, Washington, DC. Research Div. – 1987
The fourth report in a series on school finance describes how state school finance formulas are differentiated and the calculations used to measure local need, wealth, and effort. The following topics are addressed: (1) criteria for evaluating state school finance programs; (2) origins of state school aid formulas; (3) operation of equalization…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Franklin, David L.; Hickrod, G. Alan – 1990
An overview of the constitutionality of various state public education finance systems is presented. Issues addressed include education as a fundamental right mandated by the education clause of state constitutions and the impact of the equal protection clause on the education clause. Criteria for successful challenges to state school finance…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education

Ladd, Helen F.; Wilson, Julie Boatright – 1982
This paper focuses on the characteristics of Massachusetts voters who support Proposition 2 1/2, a stringent property tax limitation measure. Section I uses cross-tabular analysis to examine variations in support for the tax limitation measure across a number of demographic, household, and municipal characteristics, as well as attitudinal…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Support, Educational Finance
Lehnen, Robert G.; Johnson, Carlyn E. – 1989
This report is an update of the 1984 study "Indiana's Public Schools: An Analysis of the Past and Recommendations for the Future," which examined the Indiana school finance formula used to fund public education in the state. A fresh look is taken as a result of formula changes, and the effect of these changes on expenditures for public…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1984
The finances of major school districts in New York State during 1980-81 and 1981-82 are summarized in this report. Trend data are provided on full value, expenses, State aid, tax rates, and local levy. These items are also shown on a per pupil basis for the entire State, New York City, and the balance of the State. Eleven statistical tables are…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Expenditure per Student
Verstegen, Deborah A. – 1985
This paper describes funding formulas for the new Foundation School Program in Texas enacted under the Education Opportunity Act (H.B. 72), raises issues that have accompanied its first year of implementation, and provides preliminary data to compare prior and existing law. The state finance system, which previously distributed state aid according…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Van de Water, Gordon B. – Higher Education in the States, 1982
State-level policy leaders were surveyed in fall 1981 to determine the emerging issues in postsecondary education among the states and to ascertain policy leaders' attitudes toward these issues. A total of 683 surveys were distributed and 214 usable surveys were returned, representing 202 agencies. The overall impressions created by policy…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Wattenbarger, James L.; Bibby, Patrick J. – 1981
Based on information provided by state directors of community/junior college education, this report reviews state approaches to community college financing. The report includes data from 35 states, which together accounted for 86.3% of the total enrollment in community/junior colleges in 1980. Section I presents conclusions drawn from the data,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Community Colleges, Costs
Warfield, Walter H.; And Others – 1978
Although the Illinois Farmland Assessment Act is not an educational finance reform but is designed to ease the increasing tax burden on the state's farmland and provide a uniform, state-wide method of farmland tax valuation, it has a significant impact on K-12 public school financing because of the relationship between property and public school…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Income
Arrington, Ronald – 1979
The role of the state in funding California's community colleges may change in the wake of Proposition 13 cutbacks. Any system of statewide support must be developed around several assumptions: (1) state support will increase; (2) the college mission will remain unchanged; (3) educational demand will continue to play a substantial role in how the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Change, Educational Finance, Finance Reform
Hogan, Robert F. – 1979
In this series of aphoristic remarks about the situation of English teachers in the junior college, the following topics are discussed: administrative structure and accountability; teacher load; part time instructors and professionalism; Proposition 13; literacy and junior college students; evaluation of student papers; careerism in teachers and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English Education, English Instruction, Grading
Richardson, Richard C.; Leslie, Larry L. – 1980
In response to advocates of an expanded mission for community colleges, this three-part monograph examines the conflict between aspirations for continuing mission development and financial constraints. Part I reviews the development of six aspects of the current community college mission: transfer, vocational, developmental, continuing education,…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational History
New Mexico State Board of Educational Finance, Santa Fe. – 1977
In a collection of statistical summaries, the following information regarding New Mexico two-year colleges is presented for each institution: (1) 1977-78 average full-time faculty salaries; (2) 1975-76 unrestricted expenditures for instruction, academic support, student services, institutional support, and plant operation; (3) local district tax…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Budgets, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Amato, Josephine – 1972
In this paper, the political and economic forces influencing attempts to reduce the inequalities in education expenditures are examined. Current programs for financing public education (local, State, and Federal) are compared. In general, State-local tax systems are found to be regressive and improvements are suggested. Inequitability of State aid…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy
Daniere, Andre – 1973
This report combines a theoretical study of state school aid programs with an empirical study of school districts' responses to such programs. The author's theoretical investigation of existing systems of general state aid to school districts suggests two propositions: school districts do not maximize an ordinary utility function in the light of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews