This study looks at the relationship between district wealth and revenues available for education in Illinois using a "conditional" conception of wealth neutrality that holds constant the operational tax rate. Data used were demographic data of Illinois school districts. An analysis of beta weights suggested an undesirable relationship…

This paper examines the costs of rural schooling in South Australia from the internal allocations of resources in four country and four metropolitan schools. Case studies considered only secondary education and the differences between how metropolitan and country schools allocate resources to students; subjects; and activities such as…

This document is a report on a comparison of unrestricted Education and General (E&G) expenditures at the City University of New York (CUNY) and other select universities, colleges, and community colleges between the 1990 and 1998 fiscal years. Unrestricted funding revenue is limited to public support and tuition. Revenue from private gifts,…

Volume 4. Government Finances contains six parts that cover a wide range of state and local government financial activity in fiscal year 2001-02. They are: (1) Public Education Finances; (2)Finances of Special District Governments; (3) Finances of County Governments; (4) Finances of Municipal and Township Governments; (5) Compendium of Government…

The object of this bulletin is threefold: (1) to provide those charged with the administration of public schools in the largest cities of the United States the means of making exact comparisons of cost between any two or more cities, with a minimum of effort; (2) to establish certain standards by which any item of expense of any city of 30,000…

The article presents international comparisons of educational spending, focusing on developed nations that are comparable to the United States. Information deals respectively with differences in expenditures, selected outputs produced by the expenditures, and uncertainties that foster controversies regarding the meaning of expenditures and…

In the spring of 2002 the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan requested a study of expenditure and revenue equity and wealth neutrality in Saskatchewan from 1985 through 2000. The Saskatchewan context is unusual, an economy quite dependent on agriculture, politics that have bifurcated along urban-rural lines, and numerous other…

This brief publication contains basic revenue and expenditure data, by state, for public elementary and secondary education for school year 2001-02. It contains state-level data on revenues by source and expenditures by function, including expenditures per pupil. Contains a list of figures and list of tables. (Contains 2 figures and 7 tables.)

Although accurate measurement of training effectiveness is expensive and time consuming, it is possible. Many formal measurements of training results and a few formal measurements of training value have been created. (SE)

Presented are the five-year cumulation of statistics on the billion-dollar surge of university and four-year college library construction. (Author)

A statistical report is presented on 208 public library building projects completed in the United States during the year ending June 30, 1971. (Author)

Using a new measure of educational quality, this study shows a high correlation between educational expenditures and educational quality. (RA)

This annual statement of the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education (BACIE) covers general income and expenditures, the BACIE Golden Jubilee Appeal fund, assets and liabilities, notes on accounts, principal activities, and the Executive Council. (LY)

Explaining that tight finances are forcing colleges to rethink spending on information technology, offers 10 strategies to help minimize costs. (EV)