Describes how members of one community organization tried to get their school district to move toward an Educational Planning-Programming Budgeting System. (Authors/MB)

Explores the implications for California schools from new legislation calling for school improvement and, at the same time, Proposition 13 that reduced the property taxes. (Author/MLF)

The professional literature contains many definitions and conceptualizations of PPBS, but basically it is a term applied to a set of interrelated organizational activities. (Author)

School districts can integrate computers into the curriculum by accounting for the following variables in their planning: (1) revision of district learner goals, (2) adjustments in instructional priorities, (3) selection of hardware and software, (4) staff development needs, (5) expected technological advances, and (6) systematic review of the…

The most dramatic impact of Proposition 13 on California school districts was that the state, in follow-up actions, reduced the number of matters that could be decided locally. (Author/MLF)

With traditional methods, schools can expect to have fewer dollars for instruction every year. Computer-assisted learning will help cut costs and improve learning rates. (Two subsequent articles respond.) (Author)

Summarizes some ways Massachusetts schools have trimmed their budgets in response to Proposition 2 1/2 and offers suggestions concerning how other schools or districts could go about doing the same. (JM)

Explains the steps the Portland (Oregon) public schools used to cut expenditures. Crucial ingredients of the program were citizen input, precise impact statements, and clear distinction among funds for instruction, support, and management. (Author/JM)