This report provides an overview of southeastern state efforts to assist low-performance schools in building capacity to improve students' academic achievement. High poverty, poor economic resources, and a high turnover rate of both students and practitioners are factors that impede school improvement. High-poverty schools that do improve commonly…

Produced every four years by the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB), the Education Cost Study provides detailed instructional cost information for the state's public two-year and four-year institutions. The cost analysis is based on expenditures drawn from two sources: (1) state appropriations; and (2) tuition revenue. By using…

Describes the issues in an Illinois court case brought by school districts who claim the State is holding back appropriated school funds from one fiscal year to the next. (Author/DN)

Faced with a December deadline imposed by the State's highest court, New Jersey's legislature will soon convene in an extraordinary special session to consider a controversial proposal for changing the State's system of financing public education. Discusses that proposal and the current system for school finance. (Author/JF)

On the premise that alternatives are needed and that they will have a better service and survival rate if they are public rather than private, Illinois has instituted a network for educational options. (Editor)

Although constitutions of 50 percent of the States either stipulate or imply the obligation of State governments to ensure equality of educational opportunity, without a significant tax increase the obligation cannot be met. To be able to fulfill their obligations, States should be relieved of the rest of the welfare and medicaid burden through…

An analysis of United States Supreme Court cases related to State-church separation. (JF)

Describes the California System for financing its schools and discusses proposed laws to reform the system. (JF)

Briefly described is Alaska's rural home helper program, part of the Homemaker Service of the Department of Health and Social Services of the state of Alaska. (CB)

If the private sector of higher education is to survive, it must cooperate with the public sector in order to receive state aid. (HS)

Table compiled by Education Commission of the States that provides broad analysis of school district revenues and expenditures by state. (EA)

Contains a letter to the Columbia University community from its president regarding the university's conflict with HEW. (HS)

The frequency of school accidents is intolerably high. A school board's policy on safety education and accident prevention should include a district-wide safety program. (MF)