The focus of the college student-aid debate in Congress has narrowed to the student loan program and the money shortage faced by the middle-income family. States are providing some $375 million in scholarship programs of their own. (Author/MLF)

Although constitutions of 50 percent of the States either stipulate or imply the obligation of State governments to ensure equality of educational opportunity, without a significant tax increase the obligation cannot be met. To be able to fulfill their obligations, States should be relieved of the rest of the welfare and medicaid burden through…

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)

From the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) has developed a plan for a massive rearrangement of financial responsibilities among Federal, State, and local governments. (Author)

Looks at latest developments in State and Federal legislation and court litigation with regard to public aid to nonpublic schools. (LN)

Kansas and the Federal Government are debating whether or not federal impact aid for a school district should be deducted in some way from the formula that determines how much State aid that district properly should receive. (Author/DN)

By challenging the security of bureaucratic fiefdoms, the functionalists are put on the defensive. (Author/JN)

The Federal Government's current attitude toward public education is not conducive to adequate funding for education or to efficient expenditure of those monies which it provides. More important, it is a barrier to the orderly delivery of educational services and shortchanges both school children and taxpayers. (Author/JN)

Revenue sharing is not a matter of the States asking the federal government to solve their problems. (Author/JN)