School administrators are advised to get legal authorization now for as much maneuvering room as can be worked out with vendors of heating fuels and gasoline for school buses. Safeguards for saving gasoline and anti-freeze are outlined. (Author/MF)

Argues that balanced implementation of an educational planning-programing-budgeting system will solve resource allocation problems currently encountered in educational planning. (Author/JF)

The author advocates a total systems approach to instructional development in universities and outlines three currently advocated schemes for establishing the locus of responsibility for instruction.'' (Author/AK)

Higher Education has outgrown traditional fund accounting and needs to shift emphasis to managerial accounting principles. (Editor)

The advantages of utilizing the conceptual model and mathematical programing for the determination of the allocation of functions within a State school system. (Author)

Describes a planning and accounting system that has resulted in improved costing and planning in a mental health clinic. (Author)

Written response to an enquiry by Sen. Walter F. Mondale, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. A major reason for increased expenditures in more advantaged schools is the higher salary rates of teachers due to seniority. If seniority is shown to make no difference to student achievement, school districts should…

Discusses possible models for assessing the optionality of resource allocation in secondary education. Concludes that a suboptionalization model that requires the administrator to weigh the consequences of varying three inputs at most simultaneously offers a more promising tool for educational decisionmaking than the production function method.…

The author attacks present school systems as hindrances to education, arguing that everyone has a right to an equal part of a nation's educational budget. One solution he proposes is to offer everyone an equal share of public resources by providing both children and adults with one month of intensive education each year, and supplementing this…

The author describes the process of course development" and discusses its implications in terms of allocation of resources, changing roles, needs for specialist personnel, etc." Appended are 20 references. (Author/AA)