An attorney who has represented school interests in recent U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with State aid to parochial schools gives his interpretation of the Court's rulings in those cases. (JF)

Discusses recent United States Supreme Court rulings on aid to parochial schools and suggests how these rulings might affect education voucher plans that include parochial schools. (JF)

Describes how Massachusetts is overhauling its approach to the education of handicapped children. Discusses how things used to be, the push for change, and a new Massachusetts law that assigns to local school districts the responsibility for special education. Explains how to get education legislation drafted and enacted. (Author/DN)

Presents a case study of the more salient difficulties in developing a subsidy program that is responsive to the complexities of the private college problem, on the one hand, while conforming to political sensibilities and legal constraints on the other. Focuses on a 10-year effort in the Commonwealth of Virginia to establish a subsidy program for…

Educators, legislators, and school chiefs register their reactions to the Rodriguez case and the Supreme Court's decision regarding it. (Author/JN)

While revenue sharing is a unique and masterful windfall to local districts over the nation, if proposed cuts in current education programs are made and a special education revenue sharing bill not funded, the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction will be unable to guarantee the State's fundamental interest in education. (Author/JN)

The common school system in New York evolved from the free charity schools, rather than from the common pay schools. In first allocating public financial assistance, the City Common Council made a distinction between teachers hired on salary by the inhabitants of a defined area, and nonsalaried teachers competing on a free market. (Author/WM)

Analyzes the method of financial support provided by the state for educational opportunity at all levels. (Author)

The author proposes the adoption of a program budgeting system of educational finance to provide equality of education without threatening local control of public education. (AN)

Scholarship and loan programs sponsored primarily by state governments and state medical associations, to commit medical students to practice in rural communities. (Editor/IR)

Discusses litigation arising from problems in financing education. Cases are treated separately and classified according to the level of government providing the financing. (Author/JF)

From article at Danforth Foundation Workshop on Liberal Arts Education, Colorado College, Colorado, in 1970. (IR)

This chapter reviews recent court decisions affecting the following areas of school finance: Federal and State aid, school district spending, tax levies and assessments, and bonding practices. (JH)