Both business leaders and parents pressure policymakers to legislate new initiatives to improve schools. One improvement strategy has been to reduce class sizes; another has been to allocate larger school budgets. This paper presents findings of a study that examined the relationship between class size and student achievement and between…

Over $273 billion of revenues were raised by local, state, and federal governments to fund public education for students in prekindergarten through the 12th grade in school year 1994-95. Current expenditures (those excluding construction, equipment, and debt financing) came to $244 billion. Three out of every five dollars were spent on teachers,…

Findings from the Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education Survey (conducted each fall as part of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) are presented in 13 tables and a summary. Statistics show college and university current funds revenues and expenditures exceeded $100 billion for the first time in the fiscal…

Eight indicators used to make interprovincial comparisons of university financing in Canada are outlined and the amounts for these indicators for each of the 10 provinces are presented for 1974-1975 to 1984-1985. The eight indicators are as follows: provincial operating grants per student, provincial operating grants per capita, provincial…

The use of Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) data and a software program to compare public university expenditures is discussed. Financial expenditures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, (UNC) and other public universities were compared using 1981-1982 and 1982-1983 HEGIS data for public university members of the…

The purpose of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) computerized regional library system is to provide an on-line system that makes available to faculty and students in individual colleges and universities the library resources throughout a region, while at the same time decelerating the rate of rise of per-student library costs. The research…

Local education agencies spent $28.5 billion on free public elementary and secondary education during 1968-69, which represents 92 percent of public school expenditures during that year. These data do not include money spent for administration at state and intermediate levels, community services, adult education, and summer schools for which…

To help educators understand the Hawaiian system of school finance, this article reviews previous studies, describes the state government's role in the budgetary process, and discusses statewide funding impacts in comparison with other urban school districts and states having similar per capita income and student achievement ratings. Includes two…

This volume is part one of a three-part report of the Educational Research Service (ERS) "National Survey of Fringe Benefits in Public Schools." Data were derived from a 2-part questionnaire that was mailed to 1,918 United States public school systems. A total of 810 school systems responded, creating a 42 percent response rate. Information is…

The data in this report are part of the National Public Educational Financial Survey, an annual state-level collection of revenues and expenditures for public education for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. Nearly $305 billion were collected for public elementary and secondary education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.…

The University of Hawaii's (UH) three university and seven community college campuses are compared with benchmark and peer group institutions with regard to selected financial measures. The primary data sources for this report were the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Finance Survey, Fiscal Year 1994-95. Tables show data on…

Presents a study of Georgia college libraries that used published library statistics to compare public historically black college libraries to traditionally white college libraries. Comparisons were made by: volumes and total library staff per student; salary expenditure per student and per professional librarian; and professional library staff…

This article documents the changes in financial status among the top 49 liberal arts colleges between 1996 and 2001 by using Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) financial and enrollment data. These data show large disparities in net assets per student, expenses per student, and the subsidies per full-paying student and the…

This publication details the institutional goals, objectives, and strategies of public higher institutions in Arkansas as related to their 2009-2011 appropriations requests. It also provides operating and capital recommendations of the Arkansas Public Higher Education Coordinating Board for the Fiscal Year 2010-11 for each institution. [For Volume…

This support document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Approaches to Measuring and Understanding Employer Training Expenditure," and is an added resource for further information. As outlined in the report, the research for this study was based on interviews and case studies, analysis of other research…