This report contains data on the number and dollar amounts of Minnesota State Grants received by Minnesota undergraduates for Fiscal Years 1978 through 2003. Combined federal Pell and State Grant awards are also reported. The report includes a table showing the parameters used in the State Grant Program from Fiscal Year 1984 through 2003. The…

Article considered the uses of inequality in education and the tax limitation initiative. (Author/RK)

Discusses the effects of recent Maryland legislation which gave that state full fiscal responsibility for all new school building construction. (JF)

Summary of the characteristics of 3, 4, and 5 year-old children in the United States, and State laws on permissive school attendance age and State aid for kindergartens. (MF)

Public school districts sustained by property taxes inhibit equal distribution of education resources, overburden low wage earners, and foster inefficient labor practices. A move to the state level appears inevitable. (Editor)

Presents the full text of a Wyoming case that found the method of financing public education in that State to be in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. (JF)

Describes the failure to raise adequate school revenues through equitable means and the inability to allocate resources in an effective and equitable manner. (Author)

Discusses the desirability of locating a State or city information retrieval system at the university for joint use by online government agencies, top policymakers for budgeting and planning, and university scholars for their own or State contracted research. (Author)

Eight representative school board members dislike a plan that would sanction a State to collect all school taxes and distribute funds to all districts on equal per-pupil basis. (DE)

The New Jersey Department of Education discovered that a common statewide strategy for coping with student disorders is not practical. Two workshops involving most of the State's school districts were conducted to supply background but not to prescribe specific courses of action. (Author/MF)

A 62-mile relay run from the campus of Southeastern Massachusetts University to a rally at the State House in Boston was the culmination of a grassroots effort to counteract state funding cuts that would have forced a layoff of 100 employees and reduced the next entering class by half. (MLW)

It is proposed that New Jersey assume approximately 70 percent of the cost of its public schools. Several other proposals are presented, all a radical departure from current school funding practices. (BW)