The attitudes and opinions of Massachusetts legislators, municipal leaders, and educators regarding school finance reform reveal that school finance reform should aim for equal educational opportunity. Future school aid reform should be a total program to provide aid to cities and towns, gradually raising education's share to 50 percent state aid…

This report presents the prototype software resulting from an initial research effort in the development of a comprehensive national planning model for higher education. The software for the prototype model requires as input existing or derivable institutional and student data and is designed to permit prototype planning studies to examine the…

Current school finance problems are discussed in three papers. The first presents an analysis of the Illinois school finance reform law, providing insights into the operation of the law and an evaluation method for examining finance laws in other states. In the second paper, the relationships between selected features of Michigan school districts…

This is the first yearbook published under the new name--the National Association for Public Continuing and Adult Education (NAPCAE); however, the activities recorded took place while the organization was still called the National Association for Public School Adult Education. Statistics of public continuing and adult education deal with adult…

This report discusses the constitutionality of state aid to church-related institutions of higher education. The introduction deals with the important role that private institutions play in the total system of higher education, the seriousness of their financial plight, and the necessity for increased state aid to these institutions. Sections 2…

This report reviews the status of poverty and makes the following recommendations for program aims and structure, and for organizational changes at the Federal level. Antipoverty programs should attack the total environment of the poor: housing, education, family stability, employment, and neighborhoods. Increased efforts must be made to reach the…

Recent court decisions requiring changes in State educational finance systems have not invalidated the use of local property taxes as a revenue source for education, nor have they dictated that the same amount of dollars must be spent on every pupil. In short, these decisions have left with the State legislatures the responsibility to fashion new…

This report presents a history of the primary objectives, events, personalities, and consequences of the School Finance Study in Rhode Island. The study committee was commissioned with the task of developing a school finance plan that would provide equal educational opportunities to all pupils with similar characteristics and needs, achieve fiscal…

This report contains statements by Stephen Kurzman, various Catholic parochial school representatives, Hebrew school representatives, Protestant representatives, ACLU personnel, and others advocating or opposing aid to nonpublic schools. Much of the material deals with permissible types of aid to parochial schools in light of recent United States…

Contents of these hearings include: a statement prepared for the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, submitted by the National Committee for Support of the Public Schools; "Future Direction for School Financing, a Response to Demands for Fiscal Equity in American Education," a monograph prepared by the National…

The introduction spells out the general provisions and the district information relative to House Bill 2019, which provides a framework for districts to operate on an extended school year. Five general guidelines are then provided that give the chronological steps to be taken to implement an extended year program from letter of intent to State…

State and Federal Governments can provide aid to local school districts in many different forms, which, in general, will have different effects on school district spending. Policymakers, therefore, need to know what the impacts of alternative aid programs will be in order to best achieve their objectives. This report presents a method, based on a…

Career education is a comprehensive effort to prepare all students for a successful participation in our society by increasing their options for career choice and by enhancing learning in all subjects and at all levels of education. To fund these endeavors will require additional financial support for all schools. Local, State, and Federal funds…

In this monograph, data is analyzed to determine whether public tax funds can be used legally to support religious elementary and secondary schools. The authors investigate the history of church-State relations, the provisions of Federal and State constitutions and statutes, and Federal court decisions concerning public aid to religious schools.…

This report is part of a 10-city national study of revenues and expenditures shared by a local government. The purpose of the study is to project operating revenues and expenditures of the Albuquerque public schools through 1975. The revenue projection includes all sources and uses various methods for estimating Federal, State, and local revenue.…