Recent public interest in the unique financial problems of private higher education has resulted in proposals and legislation for state support of independent institutions. Although public assistance alleviates the private colleges' financial problems, it also obligates them to increase state supervision of their activities. Several state boards…

Attempts to resolve inequalities in the state's financing of education in the 1975 legislature were a failure because the groups behind the three advocacy positions (increase teacher salaries, increase funds for basic costs, and increase equalization) caused divisiveness that allowed erosion of the reform measures. The basic issues in late 1976…

Presented is the summary report of an Oregon study (for the 1975-77 biennium) to determine existing funding patterns for the State special education programs and to suggest two alternative formulas for State reimbursement of school district expenditures for handicapped children. Relevant legal definitions legislative bills are cited with emphasis…

Unless educators can develop a realignment or consensus of the beliefs of the various interest groups in the nation who must financially and spiritually support public education, the level of interest in providing adequate funds may not be sufficiently strong to meet the need. (Author)

Discusses the impact of citizen revolt against taxes and governmental spending on community colleges in relation to recent state legislative developments, focusing on the states in which community colleges rely heavily on local tax support. Considers effects on community college autonomy and growth. (MB)

The court's finding invalidates New York State's system of financing schools because of problems including municipal overburden. (Author/IRT)

Results of a comprehensive survey of existing state pupil transportation programs including funding factors. (Author/MLF)

Describes the political values operating to allow the Illinois finance reform legislation to be passed in 1973, outlines the legislation and subsequent amendments to the reform, and discusses evaluative research done on the reform. (Author/IRT)

The yardstick for determining the constitutionality of state aid to parochial schools is now in three questions: Does the law in question meet a valid secular purpose? Does the law either advance or inhibit religion? Does the law create an excessive governmental entanglement with religion? (Author/IRT)

Attempts to define the number of children in need of special education services and the costs of special education. Discusses six types of state funding in searching for an adequate funding formula and some basic problems of special education. (RK)

Examines the relationship between student achievement and expenditures in Virginia public schools. Estimation techniques are noteworthy for considering socioeconomic effects via an "unobservable variables" technique, measuring school expenditures in constant dollars, and correcting for heteroscedascity. Expenditure effects on achievement…

Two-year colleges are trying to change legislators' perceptions about their institutions, demanding increased state support, and working together to lobby as a state system rather than as individual institutions. (MSE)

Tight state budgets and regional economic difficulties have prompted a sharp drop in the rate that state appropriations for higher education have increased over the past two years. New England fares well while farm and oil states suffer. (MLW)