California Assembly Bill 65, recently signed into law, provides comprehensive legislation for education policy that, by attacking a myriad of educational problems, may serve as a model bill for other states to follow. (Author/MLF)

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

Scholarship programs are offered by 17 States and at least 13 offer a student loan assistance program. (Author/MF)

Local school superintendents -- one representing a large and affluent district and one from a smaller, more rural district -- present their views on full State funding of school construction in Maryland. (Author/JN)

Discusses the effects of recent Maryland legislation which gave that state full fiscal responsibility for all new school building construction. (JF)

Summary of the characteristics of 3, 4, and 5 year-old children in the United States, and State laws on permissive school attendance age and State aid for kindergartens. (MF)

The New Jersey Department of Education discovered that a common statewide strategy for coping with student disorders is not practical. Two workshops involving most of the State's school districts were conducted to supply background but not to prescribe specific courses of action. (Author/MF)

Discusses valid systems of educational finance under court doctrine set forth in the California case, Serrano vs Priest. (JF)

Discusses State actions relevant to aiding private higher education, including types of State aid and the role of coordinating agencies. (MK)

Provides State-by-State statistical data for 1973-74 on revenue sources for public schools, revenue per pupil, expenditures per pupil, average salaries, pupils per teacher, and number of school districts. The percentage of change in each of these categories from the 1972-73 school year is also presented. (JF)

Educators should become more personally active in getting to know legislators and in calling attention to the kinds of experiences, information, and personal contacts that would enable legislators to make better decisions about education. (Author)