Profiles of 65 urban American school systems are presented, showing that programmed and projected annual Federal per pupil expenditures in public and private schools between 1980-81 and 1984-85, as these would be affected by proposed Federal budget cuts and tuition tax credits for parents of private school students to equalize Federal aid to…

Presented is a pilot study focusing attention on problems of deteriorating physical plants and inadequate/obsolete equipment contributing to the current crisis in engineering education. Data are reported from a survey instrument (included in an appendix) from 26 colleges/universities, representing 168 programs out of a national total of 1212…

This report provides selected statistics on enrollments, units of average daily attendance (ADA), and finances for the California community college districts. Part I provides data on fall 1983 enrollments by college. Part II provides information on the student workload measure of ADA for fiscal year (FY) 1983-84 for credit/non-credit students and…

Since 1966, support of public schools has been damaged by widely accepted hypotheses built by Coleman, Jencks, and others on inadequate samples and faulty measurement. Describes the research of Herbert Walberg and his associates who are generating diametrically opposed hypotheses from new data. (Editor)

A regression analysis of per pupil current expenditures across public elementary schools in Hawaii indicates that Hawaii's system of full State funding of its schools has not completely eliminated a positive correlation between expenditures and family income. This correlation is the result of a direct relation between teacher salary expenditures…

Many of the problems facing Hispanos stem from inadequate representation in the economic, social, and governmental processes of American society. The LULAC National Scholarship Fund for Americans of Spanish Origin (LNSF) was established in 1975 as a means of weakening the poverty cycle which has inhibited full participation by Hispanics in…

Policy implications stemming from empirical analyses that evaluate national federal compensatory programs are clouded because negative findings could be due to either the nature of the educational process or the inadequacy of the data collection and analysis technique. This paper constructs a framework within which the separate effects of each are…

Supporting performance objective 13 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on preparing employer's business expense statements are included in this packet. (The packet is the fourth in a set of four on coordinating and performing activities…

This publication presents detailed 1976-77 statistical data on the expenditures of local public school districts throughout the United States. The reported figures reflect only actual spending by local school districts; state spending for textbooks and other local, state, or federal funds that are not funneled through individual school districts…

The primary objective of the study was to develop an analytical technique capable of measuring the impact of Federal expenditures by measuring the employment requirements created by expenditures for pollution control, and secondly to examine the transferability of scientific and technical skills from the aerospace industry to the pollution control…

A project was conducted in South Carolina (1) to develop a method by which the pupil cost of providing instruction in vocational education can be determined; and (2) to determine the per pupil cost of vocational instruction in the state. An examiniation was made of the methodology previously used by the South Carolina Department of Education to…

The National Preventive Dentistry Demonstration Project (NPDDP) delivers school-based preventive dental care to approximately 14,000 children in ten United States cities. The program, begun in 1976, is to be conducted over a six and one-half year period. The costing definitions and allocation rules to be used in the project are the principal…

Presented are data based on the revised 1982 federal budget indicating that national research and development (R&D) spending should increase significantly by 1982, particularly in the area of national defense. Summaries are presented, in chart form, of past and projected financial support for basic research, applied research and development. (SK)

This final report of a management self-study based on the Academic Library Development Program, which was conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Library/Learning Center, presents study team and task force reports and cites specific issues and recommendations. Data for the study were collected through interviews and questionnaires.…