This document presents the technical appendices accompanying the report, "Funding California Schools: The Revenue Limit System." Included are: (1) Revenue Limit Calculation and Decomposition; (2) Data and Methods; and (3) Base Funding Alternative Simulation Results. (Contains 5 tables and 26 footnotes.) [For the main report,…

Two hundred college and university vice presidents of finance were questioned about the evaluation processes currently used by their institutions in making resource allocation decisions. A strong parallel with hospital budgeting was found, with prestige maximization subject to some overall budget constraint. A longer range approach to academic…

Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs in North Dakota are evaluated in this Annual Report. The first part of the report covers staff activities, a brief demographic view of North Dakota, public and nonpublic school participation, financial data, instructional activities, major accomplishments, and statistical data about the…

EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2006 Summary Report summarizes much of the data collected through the 2006 EDUCAUSE core data survey about campus information technology (IT) environments at 933 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. The report presents aggregates of data through more than 100 tables and accompanying descriptive…

This paper details a method for those interested in investigating the equity aspects of intradistrict distributions of educational inputs (financial resources). The method can be viewed as a procedure for post "Hobson v. Hansen" lawyers and for other constituents that departs from some of the speculative quality of the evidence in use.…

In order to assist college and university officials evaluating their institution's financial condition, a simplified workbook approach is presented. The approach encourages administrators to systematically examine the financial condition of their colleges with a tested and specified set of data-gathering and computational steps. The workbook…

Proceedings of the 1979 Financial Measures Conference which assess "Progress in Measuring Financial Conditions of Colleges and Universities" are presented. Focus is the prospective uses of financial indicators and the results of attempts to employ indicators at the institutional, state, regional, and federal levels for management, and…

Proceedings of the 1980 Financial Measures Conference are presented. Papers and authors are as follows: "Ratio Analysis in Higher Education" (John Minter); "Computerized Application of Financial Assessment Technology" (Daniel Updegrove and Stephen D. Campbell); "The Uses and Utility of HEGIS Financial Data" (Loyd…