An assessment of the progress of the regional educational laboratories created under Title IV of the 1966 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Specific information on 12 laboratories is included. (AP)

A summary of the financial aspects of library system operation, based on financial data extracted from the Public Library Association's "Public Library Systems in the United States: A Survey of Multijurisdictional Systems. (JB)

Reviews the development of Black Studies departments across the country and examines some of the problems that confront them today. Suggests that Black Studies programs help to analyze human complexity and can offer to the society new ideas based on l5 non-Western traditions and cultural experiences. (AOS)

Discusses the relationship of the economic conditions of cities to the national economy. A national urban policy is needed which would promote cooperation between business and government, increase investment in public facilities--roads, bridges, ports, etc.--and channel more resources to local governments. (AM)

Discusses how recent changes in federal policies have adversely affected cities. Modifications of the state block grant system, tax laws, reductions in federal support for welfare programs, and a massive federal debt have all hurt urban economies. (AM)

Report of a study in which administrators of Black private colleges rated the importance of five strategies for maintaining the viability of their institutions: external funding; interinstitutional cooperation; faculty development programs; planning based on research data; and merger. (BE)

Based on the view that athletics are a valuable part of the school program, this article suggests where budget cuts in the athletic program might be made. (Author/JM)

Due to economic factors, many institutions of higher education may be forced to reduce faculty positions. The procedures used by Emporia State University (Kansas) can be used as a model for colleges needing to pursue various methods of retrenchment. (JN)

This article focuses on opposition to a new law that orders Maryland's state-supported schools to bare intimate facts about their financial status to an ethics commission which makes all of the reports available to the general public. (Author/SA)

Discusses problems besetting faculty sabbatical programs in an age of general financial cutbacks. Suggests various types of faculty exchange programs as a means of substituting for the cutback in sabbaticals. (Author/DB)

Describes the impact of California's Proposition 13 on the finances of one California school district. (IRT)

Discusses the problems of public financial disclosure in two states. In New York, the governor has ordered that scientists employed by the state must comply; in California, state law requires financial disclosure and prohibits "conflict of interest" financial activities of employees of state agencies, interpreted to include universities…

Enrollment shifts create several planning and financial problems for school districts accustomed to continued growth and rising budgets; however they can also signal new possibilities for quality integrated education both in cities and metropolitan areas. (Author/AM)

Describes how, while many colleges have been hurt by the collapsing financial markets, theological schools are in a particularly tight spot. (EV)