Examined California's spending patterns in higher education and corrections during the Wilson administration. Found that the prison population increased significantly, especially among people of color, while fees paid by California college students experienced their highest growth in 32 years. (EV)

Details various methods of paying for school construction in California, and discusses problems with "quick fixes" such as stock school plans, relocatable buildings, and shifting of professional services to developers rather than architects. (EV)

Reviews history and content of recent U.S. child care and family legislation comparing it to that of four European nations on five policy objectives: increasing supply, supporting maternal employment, easing burdens of child rearing, permitting parental choice, and raising quality of programs. Recent legislation brings United States slightly…

Financing school capital projects in New York State is a responsibility involving both local school districts and the state government. State building aid is provided through an aid ratio and approved expenditure formula. This formula has an equalizing effect among districts by explicitly providing an aid amount inversely proportional to property…

The nation's schools are facing multiple problems regarding facilities and capital outlay needs for new buildings, additions, and renovations to support technology and instructional infrastructures. Options include use of current revenues, sinking funds, full-state funding, equalization grants, and state aid or loan programs. Financing of facility…

A recent study's empirical tests suggest possible disparities (about 17 percent) in current funding of historically black colleges and universities. Overall redistribution of state funding would be necessary to move these colleges and predominantly white colleges and universities toward funding equity. (Contains 15 footnotes.) (MLH)

Discusses how the Grand Meadow (Minnesota) school district got more than twice the grant money asked for from the state's legislature as well as voter approval for five new $8 million monolithic domes for their K-12 facility. Three additional school district successes in developing monolithic domes for their schools are examined. (GR)

Discusses the technology shopping spree that Arizona educators are conducting thanks to a $50 million budgeting allowance from the state's legislature to reduce the student-to-computer ratios. What the money was being spent on, and some of the problems created from a large influx of technology in some schools are highlighted. (GR)

Describes local, state, and federal school infrastructure funding options. Local funding options include bond issues, special local-option sales taxes, and voter-approved mills and sinking funds. Describes use of federal Qualified Zone Academy Bonds. (PKP)

Presents key data on the percentages of undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional students receiving different types of financial aid and the average amounts of aid received. Data are from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. (Author/SLD)

Examined the revenue and cost structures of higher education institutions. First, documented the reduced importance of state appropriations and the increased importance of tuition revenues during the early 1990s in public universities. Second, considered how the changed revenue structure influenced cost efficiency in public higher education…

Waiting lists for people with intellectual disabilities who seek services from Mental Retardation (MR) or Development Disability (DD) systems are a very visible problem across the country and have forced people with disabilities, families and caregivers to respond by pressing their states into action. People living at home with their parents or…

With his state flush with cash, Gov. Michael F. Easley of North Carolina can have the best of both worlds. Sitting on a $1 billion surplus in an operating budget of $17.4 billion, the second-term Democrat last week proposed a politically popular 13 percent spending increase for K-12 education, while also asking the legislature to block scheduled…

State appropriations often fail to keep up with the growth of colleges' budgets, forcing institutions to raise tuition for out-of-state students to fill budget gaps. However, the strategy could backfire if too many of these students look elsewhere, leaving colleges with even less tuition revenue than before the raises were put in place.

The Obama administration is calling for the United States to regain its status as the nation with the highest concentration of college-educated adults in the world. In response to this challenge, the president, governors, foundations, individual campuses, and many others are pursuing a "college completion agenda" that aims to get more students…