This collection of statistical data on Maryland school library media programs is designed to assist local educational agencies in examining their library media collections and staff according to the recommendations in Criteria for Modern School Library Media Programs. The data are arranged alphabetically by local educational agencies, and the…

Information is presented on enrollments, faculty, degrees, student finances, and institutional finances at 42 private, predominantly black colleges and universities that are members of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Information provided for each UNCF campus includes: fall enrollments for 1982-1986, fall 1986 full-time and part-time…

Information on enrollments, personnel, finances, and facilities in Washington's community colleges is provided for the four quarters of 1986-87. After introductory material, 1986-87 highlights, and a comparison of annualized full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollments by funding source, section I presents enrollment information related to student and…

To help school boards and administrative personnel assess the noncash compensation packages in their districts, this fourth biennial survey provides information on fringe benefits given administrators and supervisors (other than superintendents) in a national stratified random sample of 1,044 of the nation's 11,313 public school districts.…

A listing is given of student expenses at approximately 2,750 postsecondary institutions across the United States as reported by the institutions. Eighteen tables give data indicating average expenses for commuting students, self-supporting students, and resident students, both those living in campus housing and those in private housing. The…

An overall evaluation of the Basic and Pilot Grants Programs, two closely related programs authorized under the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), and an in-depth study designed to identify specific program approaches associated with project success were conducted. Data were collected over a period of three school years: 1973-74, 1974-75, and…

One of a three-volume series concerning the development and testing of a model for determining the costs of vocational education programs and courses, this user's manual presents an overall conceptualization of the model and briefly describes each dimension. The data elements, organized into data collection instruments and recommended procedures,…

New Mexico is discussed in this fifth volume of a nine-volume, six-state study of the impact of school finance reform on minorities and the poor. The report gives a demographic summary of the state and presents the history of its school financing efforts from 1847 to the present, with special emphasis on the 1974 finance reform law. To assess the…

As volume six of a nine-volume, six-state study of the impact of school finance reform on minorities and the poor, this report examines the history, status, and effects of finance reforms in Colorado. The authors chronicle Colorado's school financing methods since 1936 and discuss the Colorado School Finance Act of 1973. They then describe…

This document, the 40th in a series, presents public school statistical data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The data consist of estimates for the 1981-82 school year and revisions of the data for the 1980-81 school year. The statistics presented are regression-based estimates of over 30 educational statistics that have been…

Patterns of expenditures in higher education are examined, based on 1977 financial data from the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) and on data from "Higher Education Financing in the Fifty States, Interstate Comparisons, Fiscal Year 1976, Review Edition." Based on 1977 fiscal year data from HEGIS, distributions of…

The cost and impact of institutions of higher education in Texas when implementing and administering federally mandated social regulations were studied. All of the 156 institutions of higher education in Texas were sent questionnaires, and 108 responded. Findings include the following: the total dollar costs for implementing and administering…

Chapter 6 of a book on school law, this chapter deals with the financial support of schools. According to the author, the constitutionality of state support programs continued to be a major issue in school finance litigation during the past year. The number of cases involving financial aspects of programs for children with special needs increased,…

The development of policy to respond to reduction and financial exigency in higher education was studied, based on a survey of presidents of 19 public and 35 private colleges and universities. In addition to assessing policy development, the survey was directed to efforts to increase enrollments and revenue and to reduce expenditures and criteria…

The financial condition of independent colleges of Kentucky and eight state universities and the community colleges taken as a unit were studied. Data for the five-year study period 1971-72 to 1975-76 was obtained from forms of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) and reports of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education and the…