Describes how Elyria (Ohio) Schools passed an $8 million school levy in five months. Highlights successful techniques used in fundraising, publicity and advertizing, registering voters, creating a citizen speakers' bureau, obtaining editorial and church support, canvassing, telephoning, involving students, and obtaining endorsements. Diverse,…

Presents arguments against the use of incentives that provide additional state aid for districts that exert additional tax effort, with particular reference to the new school finance plan in Utah. (Author/IRT)

Throughout the history of publicly-funded voucher programs--enacted and proposed--the impact on taxpayers has been a recurring issue. As the nation's longest-running program, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) provides an important case study. The fiscal impact of Milwaukee's program has evolved in very significant ways over its 18-year…

The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of multiple decisions made every year in each of these areas. No single report can provide definitive answers to such broad and fundamental questions of public…

Report of research on consequence of introducing an income variable into a district power equalizing formula for state aid grants for education in Vermont. (PKP)

Examines several schemes that include income (as well as property wealth) to measure school district fiscal capacity. (Author/JM)

It is often suggested that measuring local fiscal ability by full valuation of property per public school pupil is inaccurate and inequitable. One substitute measure proposed is district income per pupil or a combination of district income and property value per pupil. However, using this measure would result in a rise in the aid ratios in only…

This paper examines recent efforts in Arkansas to nullify property taxes. It describes how anti-tax citizens, whose push for a constitutional amendment in 1998 was thwarted by the state supreme court, have vowed to collect enough signatures to place the amendment on the 2000 ballot. The proposed amendment will abolish ad valorem taxes upon real…

Author provided a brief of the national economic setting for education. (Author/RK)

The pros and cons of Proposition 13's impact on health education programs in California are discussed. (LH)

Traces the presence of tax burden equity and educational funding equity interests in recent court rulings in order to place Connecticut's Horton vs Meskill in context. Also describes the California and New Jersey state legislatures' responses to similar state Supreme Court rulings on school finance. (Author/IRT)

Examines the fiscal environment surrounding New York's use of property taxes to raise local education revenue. The property tax should not be abandoned. The recent statewide increased burden stems from a cyclical slowing in personal income growth and a shift in funding responsibility from state to local governments. Application of the property tax…