Presents a proposal for a national support program for public schools that guarantees federal funds to meet one-third of the cost of a basic educational program from early childhood through high school graduation, equalizes states' ability to raise school revenues, and subsidizes high-cost programs of compensatory, vocational, and special…

Authors explain the importance of Program Planning and Budgeting Systems and how occupational program managers can use this technique in education. (Editor)

Those responsible for leadership in today's colleges and universities are those engaged in institutional research and those who make and manage the budgets. (HS)

Discusses how management control is exercised over the decentralized Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) with emphasis on problems of communication, program planning and budgeting, and evaluation of performance. (DE)

An examination of why educational technology has progressed so slowly and remained on the periphery of educational systems." The article also outlines some of the requirements necessary for educational technology to succeed. (Author/AA)

Administrators should examine the role and limitations of their budgeting systems and consider overemphasis on control of spending rather than efficiency or effectiveness, limitations on cash-based budgeting, need for information on operating costs, and the short range and fragmented nature of most budgets. (MSE)

A small university's health services program has coped with inflation and budget restrictions without damaging its program by: attracting and maintaining good, efficient staff; eliminating minor services; cooperating with a student advisory board; and broadening its enrollment base. (CJ)

Explores the effects of school budget cuts on music education in Oak Grove, California. When most public school music classes were eliminated, community members and parents organized a nonprofit association to teach music at cost. Teachers criticized themselves for failing to communicate the value of music education to school administrators. (AM)

Steps taken to alleviate financial problems in Los Angeles county created by Proposition 13 are described. (JD)

Data suggest that the rhetoric about how local people can solve their own problems through gifts of relatively unrestricted money is open to question. (Author)

Price (cost) analysis provides the library manager with valuable data for decision making and developing marketing strategies. This article examines program budget, cost-finding methodologies that influence demand, the impact of technology, and budget presentation. (Author/AEF)