This report provides an overview of California's current process of supporting K-12 school capital outlay, identifies its shortcomings, and offers a conceptually different approach, or blueprint, for providing state school construction support. The report also outlines a model program, consistent with this blueprint, which the state legislature…

This overview examines California's various State Allocation Board's funding programs for the construction, modernization, and maintenance of local school facilities. Funding information is provided for each program as are explanations of the school facility program construction process and the lease purchase program. The organizational chart for…

This paper reviews a descriptive model that attempts to build a relationship between funding and school effectiveness. The model describes schools in terms of their component parts. The model allows policymakers to make assumptions about how much improvement in student performance should be expected as a result of changes in funding. It also…

The Louisiana State Board of Regents' 1999-2000 Student Transfer Guide and General Education Articulation Matrix represents Louisiana public higher education's ongoing effort to improve the transfer process. The courses in this guide's matrix are typically referred to as "general education" or "core curriculum" courses.…

Large numbers of students are now attending state-supported colleges outside their home states. State legislatures have responded with higher tuition rates for out-of-state students. Consequently, the constitutionality of many university regulations determining student residency status is being challenged. (Author/PG)

Article considers the merits of the writing of one professor H. H. Milman, who stated the theoretical solution to the basic problem posed by the religious question in England in the mid-nineteenth century, that is, the need for state schools. (Author/RK)

Argues that correspondence courses offer an alternative to school district consolidation. Contends they are an educationally sound and economically feasible method of increasing students' opportunities for both academic and vocational training. (Author)

Discusses Minnesota's recent tax reform legislation which provides for increased state financing of education. (JF)

A member of the President's Commission on School Finance presents an interpretation of that Committee's report. (JF)

This chapter provides an introduction to school law by tracing the role of statutory and common law in the formation of educational policy. (JH)

Summarizes responses from directors of early childhood education in all 50 states to a survey asking for information about their kindergarten and prekindergartern programs and about future prospects for expanding early childhood education. (Author/MLF)

Comments on state legislative intervention in curriculum during the past decade. Discusses attempts to establish minimum competency testing and legislative mandates regarding subjects and minimum instructional time. Addresses back-to-basics and saleable skills issues and reviews a Presidential Advisory Committee report with a discussion of…

A case study of the role of the state in the past, present, and future financing of the Los Angeles Unified School District illustrates the extent to which Proposition 13 has reduced the capacity of localities to raise their own taxes. Journal availability: see EA 511 898. (Author/IRT)