The people say they favor reduction in the property tax -- an inequitable and disastrously inflexible source of funds for schools in a period of inflation. Voters have recently turned down proposals that would have reduced reliance on the property tax in five States. Tells why. (Editor)

As a means of understanding the Jarvis-Gann initiative, the author examines the political and economic climate of California in 1977-78, examines the Jarvis initiative and the legislative alternative, and discusses the campaign strategies and unanticipated events as they affected the voters. (Author/IRT)

The meaning of the breakthrough Serrano decision on property taxes and events that have followed. (Author)

Reductions in personal and corporate income tax rates are expected to have a negative impact on charitable giving to public education. At the same time, grant makers are demanding that grant recipients improve their efficiency and effectiveness and broaden their basis of support. (Author/WD)

Describes the financial plight of the Toledo schools, which have closed twice in two years, and the factors that contribute to that plight. (IRT)

Ohio schools are particularly hard hit by the taxpayers' rebellion." (Author)

Personal interview with Walter Heller, Professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.

Observations concerning citizen attitudes toward public education which caused the defeat of two school tax levies in Canton, Ohio. (MF)

Reactions of school board members to a plan in which the government would provide families with a voucher for each school-age child, guaranteeing specific sums of money which could be paid as tuition to any "approved schools. Parents would be free to spend this to purchase educational services. Nonpublic and public schools could compete among…

Describes the failure to raise adequate school revenues through equitable means and the inability to allocate resources in an effective and equitable manner. (Author)