In Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization the Supreme Court concluded that several low-income individuals and organizations representing them lacked standing to maintain a class action challenging the validity of a revenue ruling by the Internal Revenue Service. The impact of this case is discussed along with an alternative course.…

Skepticism about the power of education challenges the educational administrator to (1) attain a better understanding of the sources of dissatisfaction and their implications for change, (2) learn to cope with adversity and make constructive use of it, and (3) define the leadership requirements needed to address education's problems. (MB)

Discusses how sweeping new cuts in higher education funding promise to transform the professional lives of academics, particularly pressuring the liberal arts. (EV)

Discusses the trend toward reduced funding facing public institutions of higher education and the responses it may require, such as a tight focus on institutional mission. (EV)

Describes how, despite the rapidly growing demand for their programs in bad economic times, community colleges bear a disproportionate burden from state budget cutbacks. (EV)

Discusses why public colleges think their appropriations will rebound after the recession should think again. (EV)

Identifies possible sources of supplemental income to finance Nigerian universities, including households and commercial and industrial firms. A consumption tax imposed on certain goods and services would generate needed funds. Also, because firms employ university graduates to earn higher profits, their turnover income should be taxed to support…

Examined trends of publicly owned, for-profit providers of custodial home care. Found that restrictive public payments and lack of private insurance coverage have contributed to financial woes of providers. Suggests that changes are urgently needed which address the financing of home care. (Author/NB)

Private colleges that have prospered have done so by enhancing revenue, not by decreasing expenses. The private college president of today is becoming more a salesperson, delegating operational duties to subordinates while focusing on fund-raising and public-image concerns because of the chronic need for more money. (MLW)

Describes a Levittown (New York) elementary principal's strategy for handling a permanent school closure resulting from unfavorable demographic trends, rising taxes, and drastic cutbacks in state aid. All students were given tours of a newly created middle school or alternative elementary schools, and K-4 students participated in pen pal exchanges…

Award-winning Colorado Springs Superintendent Trevor Burnley has dedicated his energies to the "kid business"; he recently adopted his two young grandchildren and works diligently to keep schoolchildren away from the eight-ball. Faced with a slashed budget, he had to cut staff and freeze salaries, earning teachers' resentment. He…

Describes the effects of budget cuts, faculty defections, and low morale on the reputation of the African American studies department at the University of California (Berkeley). The author examines the department's emergence as an intact, resilient, and vital model. (GLR)

This year's budget cleaver has chopped away at school cafeteria budgets across the country. In some districts, this means fewer choices on the lunch line, fewer staffers, deteriorating equipment, and more sales of snack and processed foods. Some schools have dropped the School Lunch Program because of budget cuts. (MLH)

Although more demands are being placed on public schools, less money is available to meet them. A lagging economy, state aid cuts, and spiraling costs are severely straining the U.S. education system. Board members are targeting student transportation, administration, athletics, unessential programs, retiring teachers, and maintenance for budget…

Notes that child-care-center directors feel trapped by financial limitations, and encourages administrators to dream of changes to their programs and then to creatively achieve their dreams. Presents strategies for securing positive changes: assessing current situation; representing pieces of dream with blocks; reinventing idea of quilting bees;…