Expertise in the technical aspects of planning and a keen appreciation of the social factors involved are not, in themselves, sufficient for satisfactory educational planning. The plan will still not be feasible unless there is attention to a third group of factors called "practical issues", "organizational features", or…

The problem of the efficient allocation of State aid for libraries within a fixed budget constraint was studied. A management science (operations research) approach was utilized. Two basic models were developed: an allocation model to determine the amount of State aid to be received by each library system and a model that predicts library use as a…

Four attempts to use telecommunications in education are reviewed: educational television in Columbia, the Bavarian Telekolleg, ALPS (Adult Learning Program Service), and the proposed Edu-Cable. The lessons that have been learned from them bear on the application of cable television to education and higher education in particular. The analyses are…

Texas Southern University's capacity to simultaneously conduct comprehensive academic instruction, research and development, and community service programs is evaluated in this document. Automated techniques and subjective reasoning have supplied the basis for the analyses. The major objectives of the report were to determine the resource…

This paper attempts to study the local politics of compensatory education. It addresses the question of why some neighborhoods appeared to be more politically influential than others over the distribution of compensatory education funds in a large urban school district. Data for this study was gathered from 100 schools and neighborhoods of the Los…

In the past decade, many colleges and universities have reduced or eliminated the number of required general education courses, which had the original purpose of assuring a 'well-rounded' liberal education. The important question is how such curriculum reforms, which increase student choice as opposed to university choice of courses, affect the…

The need for a management information system for a community college is developed. Based on this need, a system is outlined. The system and data base are modular in structure. The modules included are: (1) Student, (2) Personnel, (3) Financial, (4) Facilities, (5) Community Information. Examples of the data which are part of each module are…

Higher education faces continuing cost pressures from a multitude of new demands. The consequence is a new emphasis upon resource allocation that is only possible if the required data about program costs, program outputs, and program income are readily available. The task of the new management in higher education is to gather the needed…

This paper (1) defines the concept of equalization as it has been used in school finance, (2) examines some selected problems in the measurement of the concept of equalization, and (3) applies the concept of equalization to current State educational fiscal policy matters. The definitional problems are investigated by posing what are believed to be…

This guide, designed primarily to assist school administrators, describes programs initiated by school districts to finance new school construction by nonconventional methods. Accompanying the basic information are case studies and charts illustrative of major financing alternatives and the decisionmaking routes that have led school districts to…

During the New York hearings, testimony pertinent to the bills was presented by such speakers as Hon. Herman Badillo, Representative in Congress from New York State, and Dr. Ewald Nyquist, New York State Commissioner of Education. Such documents as "An abstract of a three-year longitudinal study to assess the fifteenth point…

This document discusses the role of educational objectives in the construction of a program budget. Special emphasis is given to the necessity of specifying primary objectives--those that support basic values and fulfill community needs. Because primary objectives are at the top of the educational objectives hierarchy and provide the format for…

The learning resources program at Tarrant Count Junior College calls for a district-wide resource dedicated to the support of instruction. Traditional library and media services are subsumed within this approach. The operational model consists of many interrelated subsystems most of which are described by flow charts. The systems viewpoint is…

This manual was prepared to provide local school districts with a model to follow in implementing a local planning-programing-budgeting system (PPBS). Section I (chapters 1-4) gives the basic concepts and overall design of a PPB system for local districts. Section II (chapters 5-7) describes computations used in a semiautomated PPBS version,…

The sixth full year of Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act programs in Wichita, Kansas has just been completed. As in previous years, the major thrust of Title I or Project SPEEDY (Special Programs to Enhance the Education of Disadvantaged Youth) has been in the area of corrective reading and other programs designed to promote language…