The focus of this article is upon an approach to allocating educational resources which is structured to minimize existing inadequacies in distribution procedures. It also presents some practical problems encountered in initiating a new allocation procedure at the State level. (Author)

Updated were statistics of an earlier study done by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) in 1980, entitled "The Missouri School Finance Study." The recent results differed from the earlier study's, illustrating the extent to which revenues per pupil depended on local property wealth and income. The results of the first study…

The ABCs of financing church and synagogue libraries are presented in this guide as Acquiring Funds, Budgeting, and Cash Accounting. Acquiring funds and the basic means needed to start a library are described, including resources such as books, shelves, office supplies, and financial resources; ideas and methods are presented for soliciting both…

This study is a replication of a 1983-84 study involving state activity in the area of staff development. Responses to a survey were received from the Chief Educational Officer in each of the 50 states. A comparison is made of changes since the 1984 study, focusing on four basic objectives: (1) Which states through law or accreditation currently…

A study was conducted to examine library data and trends among a group of 42 liberal arts colleges known as the "Bowdoin List." Questionnaires were completed and returned by 35 of the colleges, and interviews were conducted with the library directors at 22 of the colleges. The first of 10 sections in this report presents the statistical…

This report describes library services for the blind and physically handicapped supported by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), Title I, funds during fiscal 1985. Trends in library services for the blind and physically handicapped determined by an examination of reports from individual states are briefly summarized for the areas of…

Developed as the result of an analysis of annual reports from state libraries, this report describes library services for the institutionalized supported by Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), Title I, funds during the fiscal year 1985. Trends identified include the funding of more specific projects, resulting in less population being…

This report describes library services funded as specified by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), Title I, major urban resource library (MURL) provisions, and services offered by metropolitan public libraries that served as national or regional resource centers during fiscal 1985. A review of annual reports provided by state…

Representing the culmination of a project undertaken at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science, this two-part report evaluates the feasibility of using bookmobiles as a resource expansion mechanism for public libraries in the future, and provides an overview of current bookmobile services. The report, which is…

At a time of tremendous expansion of early childhood services, funds to train the needed work force are almost unavailable outside of the Head Start community. This problem is compounded by the limited amount of attention that the topic of early childhood teacher preparation and professional development has received from researchers and…

The findings of a recent Economic Policy Institute report that asserts that U.S. schools are financially undernourished compared to other nations is critiqued in this paper. The argument is made that not only is there no systematic relationship between increased spending on education and academic performance, but also that increased spending is…

Mount Saint Vincent University (Nova Scotia), in cooperation with the Atlantic Satellite Network, has been involved in offering credit courses using videoteleconferencing since 1983. Distance University Education via Television (DUET) is a unique use of videoteleconferencing which complements the need for current information and for the…

This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit examines the current state of online services based upon the experiences of a select number of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in the United States and Canada. Many of the kit documents were obtained during a survey of eight private institutions conducted for Duke…

Based on information and documents gathered from 103 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries via an April 1986 ARL Recon Project questionnaire, and supplemented with additional interviews and materials gathered throughout the year, this publication focuses on retrospective conversion projects designed to support the implementation…

This paper discusses selected techniques for measuring equity in a state school finance system and focuses on the distribution of fiscal outcomes among school districts in Pennsylvania. Measures of dispersion, measures of relationship, and winners-losers ratios are demonstrated with data from a small sample of school districts. Data from a…