This report is designed to assist school administrators and school boards to prepare for negotiating issues relating to class size. It includes a brief summary of the research on class size, adapted from ERS's report Class Size: A Summary of Research. Viewpoints of both school management leaders and teacher organization leaders on negotiating the…

According to a formula developed to measure the adequacy of state educational finance levels, only three of six selected midwestern states provided adequate levels of expenditure per pupil in 1981-82. The formula for determining adequacy, developed by Jerry Miner and Walter McMahon, consists of totaling adequate levels of expenditure in seven…

The full-time equivalent enrollment (FTEE) has been a significant factor to Iowa's 15 area community colleges for cost analysis, production comparisons, and for the distribution of state aid. The FTEE formula calculates units of production according to the ratio of reimbursable contact hours (RCH) to total contact hours generated by student…