What is the actual distribution of federal financial aid funds across states to students with different characteristics attending various types of institutions? This document presents an effective means of organizing these extensive data in a way that is useful for evaluating the distribution of current federal programs and for estimating changes…

Several major reasons for municipal overburden have been identified by authorities. These include the following: (1) it is more expensive to provide public services in urban areas; (2) the socioeconomic characteristics of urban residents place heavy demands on municipal services; (3) city tax bases are failing to keep pace with increasing costs;…

The Texas Foundation School Program, popularly known as the Minimum Foundation Program (MFP), is a very complex approach to school finance. It provides basic assistance in three areas--minimum salaries, operating allowances, and transportation--and additional assistance in two others--vocational education and special education. The state pays…

The deficiencies of five traditionally black institutions are examined in an attempt to remedy those deficiencies. Examined are: general institutional characteristics, financial and physical resources, capital, physical facilities, students, faculty and administration, academic programs, libraries, and computing resources. The principal conclusion…

Public attitudes toward financing public education from state and federal sources, voucher systems, and value added taxes are analyzed using responses from the Gallup polls, 1969 to 1974. The results show that the public will not accept increases in local property taxes or increases in federal expenditures beyond present levels. Voucher systems…

The Vermont Student Assistance Corporation was established in 1965 by the General Assembly for the purpose of awarding grants and guaranteeing loans to Vermont students. Many students with exceptional ability fail to see the possibility of postsecondary education as a reality because of economic barriers placed on them throughout their adolescent…

Raising adequate revenues for educational support has become a problem in many of the nation's school systems, but hardest hit are big-city and urban systems. This crisis exists because cities cannot support educational services with available tax resources, because urban educational costs are higher than those in the suburbs, and because cities…

After noting that only 43.6 percent of the dollar value of school bond issues submitted to U.S. voters was approved during 1968-69, the author discusses various State grant and loan school construction programs. Alternatives to, and suggestions for, financing public school construction, as well as guidelines for developing State capital outlay…

In this brief report on higher education in the state, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission recommends that: (1) the state continue to increase college opportunities and provide higher education for the same percentage of youth as the national average by 1975; (2) public institutions be prepared to cope with vast increases in enrollment; (3)…

This study documents the second of three phases of the Indiana Higher Education Facilities Comprehensive Planning Study. Papers comprising this second phase of the study are devoted to long-run forecasts of needs and resources and related significant considerations. This portion of the study focuses on financing higher education. Consideration is…

The characteristics, objectives, and application of the present Pennsylvania subsidy system are reviewed. The relative ability of each school district to support its educational program is equalized by the State paying each school district a share of the cost of its educational program. The State's share for each school district varies in relation…

The 1970 Alaska State plan for construction of facilities for the mentally retarded is discussed. State agency organization charts, methods of administration, program goals and policies, an election district map showing catchment areas and Indian reservations, an explanation of inventories, and a survey of need and ranking of areas comprise the…

Information was collected from questionnaires returned by 26 of 40 institutions which included state institutions west of the Mississippi River plus some Big Ten schools east of the Mississippi. State appropriations, "General Fund", contributions to the extension divisions' total annual budgets ranged from 100% (1 school) to 0% (5 schools).…

During recent years, the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) have had problems applying and enforcing a law (Illustration 7) affirming that state funds be left entirely to the jurisdiction of the institutional governing board after they have been appropriated. After alleged violations by state…

The conclusions of this study were that modernization of school buildings is feasible if the costs do not exceed 20 to 40 percent of the cost of new or replacement construction. Variables include site, type of interior and exterior construction, and the number of teaching stations. The teaching staff needs to correlate educational changes with…