In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education made grants to eleven school districts under the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans (TASAP) program. The impetus for the program came from the Council of Great City Schools, which was concerned that school districts would respond to a recent Supreme Court decision by dismantling policies…

Newly implemented state policy dealing with school finance created several consequences in a school district to include school configuration and restructuring of educational programs. This case describes how a new school finance law changes the entire dynamic of a school district and its newly appointed superintendent. The superintendent…

One of the challenges limiting the capability for analysis of educational issues is that data on school enrollments, staffing, and financing are collected through separate but annually conducted universe surveys. Because the data are collected and provided by separate agencies, the available data from the nation's school districts are often…

Minnesota spends more for education than most states and has increased its financial commitment steadily over the past 15 years. Because of the state's dominant role in education funding, legislators have enacted measures requiring all local school districts to follow uniform financial accounting and reporting standards (UFARS). Since 1980, the…

Flexibility is a lever for change that occupies an increasingly prominent place in federal strategies for educational improvement. Flexibility assumes that local actors are in the best position to identify the most serious problems facing schools and students and to determine how to solve them. Consequently, these actors should be given greater…

This study focuses on flexibility provisions in the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) provision of NCLB. Specifically, it addresses REAP Flex, a program that allows rural districts additional control over how to spend portions of their federal funding. REAP Flex is part of a series of NCLB flexibility initiatives aimed at rural schools.…

Statistics on the state-level financial status of public schools are provided for fiscal years (FYs) 1983, 1984, and 1985, along with documentation for the use of an associated database file. The data provide current information about aggregate public school revenues and expenditures collected and reported at the state level. Data for FY 1985…

An investigation into the costs of adult continuing education in Ontario was conducted to provide information that could be used in setting the level of provincial grants for continuing education programs. The research was carried out over a 6-month period from April to October 1987. The research strategy involved three stages: a review of the…

The requirement that programs and activities of schools receiving federal financial assistance be accessible to the disabled has been in force for two decades. This paper presents findings of a General Accounting Office study that examined the accessibility of existing schools nationwide. To evaluate the degree to which accessibility was still a…

This report discusses the outcomes of a study that surveyed charter school principals and special education directors in Colorado to determine their attitudes about charter school services for students with special needs, to determine how charter schools fund special education services, and to create a data-based foundation for making…

This report on the economic impact of Schenectady County Community College (SCCC) uses a modification of the Caffrey and Isaacs model to assess SCCC-related local business volume, SCCC costs and benefits to the Schenectady County government, and the likely impact on the county if SCCC did not exist. Part I provides background to the study,…

A study was conducted to determine the costs associated with the board of trustees of California's community college districts during the 1985-86 academic year. Questionnaires were mailed to the chief executive officer at each district, requesting information on the total district budget, fees or salaries paid to trustees, insurance costs, funding…

This report presents the results of a spring 1982 survey of a random sample of Washington public schools which separated findings according to school level (elementary, middle, junior high, or high school) and district size (either less than or greater than 2,000 enrollment). A brief review of previous studies and a description of the survey…

This report presents a variety of revenue and expenditure data for U.S. public elementary and secondary schools during the 1976-77 fiscal year. Data were compiled from annual expenditure reports submitted by each state. Information is intended to meet the general information needs of educational researchers and the more specialized needs of…

This report presents data on budgets, levies, enrollments, costs per pupil, and teacher salaries in Montana's small rural (Class "C") school districts for fiscal year 1996-97. Data are based on survey responses from 86 of the 98 public schools and 3 of the 5 private schools in the Class "C" category. The range of Class…