Outlines Wisconsin's proposed plan to establish a voucher system for its higher education institutions. (JF)

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

New York State provides 100 percent financial assistance to schools for approved innovative activities and demonstration projects conducted during the summer months. Reported are results of projects funded in supervision of work-experience programs, instruction of disadvantaged and handicapped students, advisement of youth organizations, and…

Its executive director outlines the history and describes the current operations of the Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network. (LS)

Excerpts from speech given at the Annual Conference of the Ohio State Vocational Education Staff, Nov. 1968.

In a survey of state supervisors of industrial arts, it was found that lack of funds, inadequate personnel, and ineffective organization are major problems affecting the supervisors' performance. There is also no functional system for state supervisors to obtain data on local supervisory programs. (CT)

Using data on school finance alternatives, taxpayer characteristics, and district financing in the Portland (Oregon) metropolitan area, this study tested the taxpayer equity yielded by several models of school financing. The results indicate that greater equity would occur if the state assumed a larger share of school support. (RW)

This discussion of educational finance highlights the six-fold increase in the cost of education since 1959; changes in the state, local, and federal proportions of school funding; the importance of education in the total economy; and the effect of changing public policy on revenues for education. (SK)

Outlines one approach for assessing and measuring the differences in the costs of education services and reports the results of an application of this approach to data for the state of California. (Author/IRT)

Effects on programs in health, physical education, recreation, and dance of the 1978 Jarvis-Gann proposition reducing property taxes are documented. (MJB)

An earlier article in this journal is revised to reflect more accurately the data from a study by including data from Alaska and Hawaii. The study concerned the influence of investment in higher education on state workforce productivity. It is concluded that this impact is substantial, and that increased investment would raise further the growth…