A survey, by the Department of Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), of income, expenses, and general operating data for university-owned members of AAMC's Council of Teaching Hospitals is reported. The current survey was based on data for fiscal 1978. (Author/MLW)

Community education in New Jersey will benefit from legislation financing the construction of facilities that deliver community and social services. Five departments of state government are to cooperatively develop a minimum of ten local models of community education facilities. (Author/MLF)

Describes and provides a simulation of an input-output, goal-programing technique that uses efficiency criteria as prerequisites for state aid payments and provides for the sharing of managerial know-how between the state and local school districts. (Author/IRT)

States with programs to match private donations to colleges often find the demand for money far exceeds what they can afford to pay. This has resulted in some private benefactors getting frustrated and withdrawing their donations. Few of the proposals to reform matching grant programs have made much headway in state legislatures, and few colleges…

Discusses how the economic downturn crushed a promising plan to improve higher education in Missouri. (EV)

This study assesses the impact of Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars Program, a supplemental grant program that provides aid to low-income students who kept an eighth grade "promise" to prepare for college and to remain drug free. Analyses reveal that the grants helped equalize opportunity to persist in Indiana's public colleges.…

Gratts Elementary School, a K-5 facility in central Los Angeles, California, was under construction when additional state funding became available for school districts building in urban environments. Some of these funds were used to add a computer network. (MLF)

The second of two articles addresses recent school finance litigation raised in five states. These decisions appear to have strengthened the concept of education as a state responsibility, so much so that the likelihood of significant reversal toward increased local autonomy appears to be improbable. (MLF)

In Connecticut programs and services vary greatly from district to district; these variations are caused mainly by wide disparities in local tax contributions that affect state aid distribution. This study shows a marginal relationship among some selected financial variables and organizational health characteristics of randomly selected high…

Describes research that examined several variables, including the geographic placement of states, that might explain fluctuations in state governments' apparent willingness to fund public libraries. Tables summarizing state aid are appended, and accompanying maps provide pictorial testimony to the behavior of states on selected library and…

Present educational reforms in New York are traced in this article. Fiscal impact and local response are described, future reform needs are identified, and the process of reform politics is discussed. Statewide monitoring and data analysis are identified as remaining problems. (JD)

School districts often face unevenly timed state aid and property tax disbursements. As a result, they issue a large volume of short-term, tax-exempt cash-flow operating notes. Offers details about why school districts need to issue notes and discusses the increasing trend of pooled note issues. (MLF)

Summarizes arguments for and against replacing the local school property tax by a local school income tax. Explores the empirical effects of such policies for New York State. Using a 3% income tax and refashioning state aid to a foundation level of $8,068 per pupil would not require substantial new state revenues. (38 footnotes) (MLH)