This report examines school funding concerns in Pennsylvania and how they affect Philadelphia schools and, to some extent, the schools of Pittsburgh. The report presents a new way to look at issues of school funding equity and adequacy by trying to link the debates over high standards and the opportunity to meet them by defining adequacy around…

Attendees at the symposium did not agree that Indiana has a tax problem, and discussion about eliminating property taxes and establishing an alternative tax structure seemed inconsistent to many who participated. Attendees felt they did not have a clear sense of the objectives for a new tax plan. They were open, however, to continuing discussion,…

In 1996-97, forty percent of all students in New York state public schools attend schools in one of the nine high minority districts in which minority students constituted eighty percent or more of total enrollment. This report uses the downstate metropolitan region to analyze the effect of state aid policies on high minority school districts and…

This guide provides information on the cooperative audit resolution for program improvement. It offers guidance for resolving audit findings, as well as tips on how to use the Cooperative Audit Resolution and Oversight Initiative (CAROI). CAROI is a collaborative method to provide alternative and creative approaches to resolve audit findings and…

This document discusses trends in the supply and demand for higher education in England in order to raise fundamental questions about future student numbers and to encourage discussion of future policies. It examines the rapid expansion of higher education places in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the leveling off of growth in demand that…

In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court directed schools in 30 poor urban districts to adopt a comprehensive school reform program by the 2000-2001 academic year. Part of this program involved delegating resource-allocation decisions to the school level, thereby increasing schools' effectiveness and productivity by bringing the perspectives of…

This article analyzes the increasing emphasis on research in the non-university higher education sector in Norway as an important faculty task in addition to teaching. This development provides an interesting example of the tensions and dilemmas that may emerge when institutions and individual staff members try to imitate the research profile of…

The "Capital Construction Budget Recommendations and Prioritization 2003-2005 Biennium" provides priority and funding recommendations for capital construction budget requests at the Nebraska State Colleges, the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis. The Coordinating Commission for…

CAI can pay by choosing a market where a decrease in training time or an increase in student-teacher ratios can be translated into lower over-all costs to the system. This situation obtains when CAI is used for the education and training of professionals, children with learning disabilities and others whose instructional needs cannot be met by the…

This paper describes the development and use of a reporting system that provides ongoing information about the functioning of a child welfare agency. The format, by relating productivity to operating costs, provides a realistic and helpful picture of performance and resource allocation. (CS)

Applies output budgeting techniques to the "production" of graduates at a British University. The cost per student graduated in 18 different disciplines is first divided among (1) capital and maintenance costs, (2) teaching costs, and (3) administrative and general expenditures. The potential cost savings from more efficient utilization…

Maintains that opportunities for equal education are inextricably related to other societal factors such as health, welfare, employment, and housing; suggests that equitable distribution of society's finite resources, diversification of educational programs and systems, desegregation, and a redefinition of the Federal government's role in…

Resource optimization in building design is based on the total system over its expected useful life. Alternative environmental systems can be evaluated in terms of resource costs and goal effectiveness. (Author/MF)

An interesting perspective is offered on how one institution dealt with its fiscal problems and instituted new approaches to budgeting. (Author/JN)