By recognizing the expanding dimensions of education's responsibility and by designing appropriate patterns of finance and structure, the educational system can weather its crisis and achieve flexibility. (Author/SP)

Although State and local governments fill a strategic role in the area of education, the Federal government provides leadership in research and development and financial support. Federal financial support should be broadly allocated in three basic ways: (1) Designated block grants which give each State maximum flexibility, (2) categorical aids for…

The time for real change in education is here--and it must be a change that is basic--in line with new perspectives on national purposes. (Author)

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

One principal set of obstacles preventing public education from having shown more progress in realizing the national objective of equal educational opportunity has to do with the way schools are financed. Resolving problems of school finance is, U.S. Commissioner of Education Allen says, an absolute essential in achieving equal opportunity. Some…