The new Federal revenue sharing proposal has been received with diverse reactions by politicians, economists, and citizens. The program is divided into $5 billion annually in general revenue sharing and $11 billion annually in special revenue sharing. Proposed alternatives to revenue sharing include (1) reduction of Federal taxes, thereby…

Using the Serrano v. Priest case and federal revenue sharing as precedents, it is proposed that the federal government furnish (on a regionally adjusted per child rate) 50 percent of the needed school revenues directly to the state through an earmarked "special revenue sharing" package. This would be granted only if the states would raise and…

Concludes that the Revenue Sharing Bill gives rise to a very complicated set of non priorities which could undercut poor and working class blacks in every major city. (Author/AM)

The article prepares the ground for an investigation designed to trace the economic effects of intergovernmental transfers by examining the motivations for the expenditure behavior of local governments and anticipates local responses to revenue sharing, both general and special. (Author/NQ)

Critical rebuttal to a previous article attacking the Administration's role in education (Compact; v7 n5 Nov-Dec '73). (EA)

Ten questions about education are asked a member of the board of education and a teacher. (MF)

The typical grants management process is analyzed into components and each component is discussed with a view to alternative ways of designing the component. An evaluation model is presented in which administrators may appraise the desirability of actual or planned grants management approaches. (Author/DN)

Special education revenue sharing would recognize the important role of nonpublic schools in the educational system. (Author/JN)

Title I is a remarkable success in view of all the administrative problems confronting school systems. (Author/JN)

Discusses the implications of the California Serrano vs Priest decision for the federal aid program. (JF)

Discusses the meaning of stimulation and substitution in the context of federal aid to libraries and suggests how these uses are likely to affect library funding in the immediate future. (Author/JVP)

Recent judicial treatment of tax expenditures in both state action and establishment clause cases is analyzed and it is argued that tax expenditures and direct expenditures should be treated as constitutional equivalents. (LBH)

State budget crises, along with voter-passed initiatives limiting property tax levies, have severely reduced school financing in many states in recent years. Rural schools may be particularly vulnerable in that they are typically less able to generate revenue because funding often is tied to enrollment, rural districts tend to have lower property…

A group of research projects are designed to measure various impacts of this program. The research has provided a new base of information and identified limitations of the procedures used for making allocations. (BT)