The 1972-73 report provides evaluative perspectives on a variety of aspects of the Illinois public school program for gifted children. Sections provide an overview of the development of the Illinois programs; a review of independent evaluations of Gifted Area Service Centers; a summary of the first statewide survey of Area Service Center…

This report on higher education finance in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is divided into six sections. Section one deals with state support for higher education, and whether the state should give greater attention to the private sector than it has in the past. The question of whether the state could support substantial additional costs of…

The 1971-72 annual report of the Educational Opportunity Fund provide information about E.O.F. students who are enrolled in the program at 48 institutions of higher education in New Jersey. The report reveals that the program continues to progress at a satisfactory level and the major objectives established by the New Jersey legislature are being…

A report of the Illinois Gifted Program Evaluation, the document first presents origins, policies, and scope of the reimbursement section of the Illinois Plan for Program Development for Gifted Children. Outlined is the evaluation design, in which subjects were 34 school districts representing a 10% stratified random sample of 340 districts. Each…

This paper summarizes a recent study of a mathematical approach to the allocation of State resources to local school districts. The purpose of this approach is to (1) assure the maximum utilization of resources available, (2) distribute State funds in accordance with the criteria of effectiveness imposed on the system, and (3) satisfy the…

This paper discusses four arguments for full State funding of schools: (1) the State is the logical and legal governmental unit to guarantee equal educational opportunity and program adequacy, (2) the State can command revenues through a variety of taxes whereby districts are generally limited to property taxes, (3) students in sparsely settled…

In the last few years government agencies have expanded their controls over higher education and thus diminished the autonomy of public insitutions. Some of the recent instances of government intervention were the responses of legislators and government officials to student and faculty behavior they considered irresponsible and disruptive. In…

This paper discusses enrollment projections and trends in public and private colleges and universities. (1) Total enrollment in higher education may reach 14 million by 1982 and 12 million of these will be in public institutions, almost a 100 percent increase since 1970. Enrollments in private institutions will probably increase by only 5 percent.…

To determine vocational program costs at the secondary and post-secondary levels so as to assist state and local administrators in obtaining financial support, three high school districts and one community college district from each of seven states were surveyed. Items for which data were collected included: (1) direct expenditures of vocational…

This paper is a report of an evaluation study conducted on Michigan's State-funded compensatory education program. For the 1971-72 school year, the legislature appropriated $22,500,000 in an effort to raise the achievement levels of disadvantaged children in reading and mathematics. Approximately 112,000 kindergarten through sixth grade pupils in…

This report is comprised of two separate papers, "A Tax Credit for Certain Educational Expenses" by James A. Maxwell and Bernard L. Weinstein and "Income Tax Credits for Tuitions and Gifts in Nonpublic School Education" by Roger A. Freeman. The first paper is based on the assumption that provision of financial relief to parents who send their…

This report discusses the dispute in Arizona over the 1967 legislation regulating educational finance and offers alternatives to that legislation. The document describes factors and issues relevant to an understanding of the present dispute, defines accepted principles of educational finance, provides factual information about Arizona's support of…

The financing of outdoor education should be the responsibility of the school district according to the same policies that pertain to other emphases in the curriculum. However, sources of funding other than local school tax funds are state funds, Federal funds, and private funds. State funds that might be used for outdoor education programs…

This first report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio sets forth a course of action to improve student learning by better use of teaching staffs. The most important needs of the children are determined to be an individual capacity for problem solving (the development of this skill must begin with a mastery of "the three…

In October 1971, the Academy for Educational Development entered into a contract with the Council on Higher Education of the State of Washington to prepare an analysis with recommendations on the financing of postsecondary education in Washington. The resulting pamphlet is divided into 5 chapters: (1) Higher Education for Whose Benefit? (2)…