Ohio's school funding system is complex. The average taxpayer has at best a limited understanding about how their public schools' revenues and expenditures are collected, distributed, and expended. Overlay on the already complicated funding model with a myriad of school choice options with various funding mechanisms and amounts results in…

This study shows that State taxes provide a more equitable means of supporting schools than do local taxes. (JF)

A case is made for the end of local property taxation and a complete takeover of financing public schools by the state. (NI)

In Illinois, the combination of aging structures, local taxpayer resistance to increased property taxes, and increased costs have all affected local school infrastructure feasibility. Proposes four steps districts should be required to take to meet their fiduciary responsibilities. (eight references) (MLF)

Promotes the argument favoring State support of schools. (LN)

School districts are caught in a financial squeeze with reduced federal funding, recessionary reductions at the state level, and political pressures against raising taxes. School districts are searching for alternative sources of funds including school impact fees and business partnerships. One method, tax abatement, often costs districts because…

This booklet is concerned with the functioning of the State and local programs for financing public schools in Nebraska. Its purpose is to encourage more people to study the problem of educational finance both in practice and in theory. Discussion focuses on the School Foundation and Equalization Act of 1967. This legislation transferred part of…

Discusses Minnesota's recent tax reform legislation which provides for increased state financing of education. (JF)

A member of the President's Commission on School Finance presents an interpretation of that Committee's report. (JF)

This report describes the results of a project that has been aimed at collecting and validating data on local wealth in school districts throughout the nation for the school year 1976-77. Section 2 reviews the concepts and terminology needed to understand and interpret the data collected. Section 3 describes the conduct of the project, including…

Article considered the uses of inequality in education and the tax limitation initiative. (Author/RK)

Eight representative school board members dislike a plan that would sanction a State to collect all school taxes and distribute funds to all districts on equal per-pupil basis. (DE)

The New Jersey Legislature acted to save New Jersey education, and their public school system, closed by a July 1 court order, opened in September with renewed hope. (Editor/RK)