Presents national and state information on public education finances, including revenues by source, current expenditures by function, and current expenditures per pupil. About $326 billion of revenues were raised by local, state, and federal governments to finance public education through grade 12 in school year 1997-1998. (Author/SLD)

Examines trends in disparities between districts in education expenditures from 1979-1980 to 1993-1994. Uses seven measures of educational disparity to present a cross-section of the different methods available. A majority of disparity measures indicate a decline in disparity in most states, but an increase in disparity for the United States as a…

Discusses progress in connecting schools and classrooms to the Internet and explores relationships between school characteristics and Internet access. Differences among public schools in Internet access have decreased, but schools with the highest proportions of minority or poor students continue to have less access to the Internet. (SLD)