The centerpiece of former Governor Elliot Spitzer's education reform agenda was a set of performance agreements between the state and designated needy school districts. Known as Contracts for Excellence, or C4E, these agreements would eventually be linked to over a quarter of the new state aid proposed in the governor's first budget. C4E districts…

The popularity of the New Jersey Foster Care Scholars program is a testament to its importance. Typical college students rely on parents for financial assistance and emotional support. Youth aging out of foster care often are on their own. The scholarship program offers an opportunity for higher education that many foster youth thought they would…

The newly released Thomas B. Fordham Institute report "Fund the Child: Bringing Equity, Autonomy and Portability to Ohio School Finance," is the latest in a series of reports promoting the implementation of decentralized governance of public schooling coupled with student-based allocation of revenues to schools. While the current report…

Two years ago a fiscal equity analysis assessed the current Virginia equalization formula over its history (fiscal year 1975-fiscal year 2003). The findings indicated by accepted equity statistics were that the level of equity improved from fiscal year 1975 through fiscal year 1994 and leveled off from fiscal year 1994 through fiscal year 2003.…

How to best finance education is a matter of major concern, both because of the cost of education, and because of its relationship to national progress and security. Confusion about educational funding is not necessary if the major questions that are of special concern to all citizens are identified. This document outlines basic elements for…

This paper is an indepth survey of American educational finance from its origins to the present and with projections for the future. It discusses the influence of and impact on school finance of some of the following: demographic patterns, changes in the American economy, Sputnik and civil rights events, federal intervention, the courts, local…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS DEVELOPED FROM MATERIALS FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING SOURCES--EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, PRIVATE LIBRARIES, NEW MEXICO STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AND ORGANIZATIONS INTERESTED IN NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FINANCE. THE 83 ENTRIES, WHICH RANGE IN DATE FROM 1922 TO 1967, INCLUDE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, PERIODICAL ARTICLES,…

This paper reports a preliminary study on the development of a linear-programing- type model to stimulate a constrained Federal program of educational support to the States. This model determines the distribution of fixed amount funds according to some measure of effectiveness. Federal involvement so far has been in the form of Federal aid that is…

Although Pennsylvania ranks in the top 5 among states with the lowest rates of uninsured children under 19, 8.3 percent of the state's 3 million children lack health insurance. This Kids Count special report provides information on Pennsylvania's uninsured children. The report indicates that more than one-fourth are estimated to be eligible for…

Promotes the argument favoring State support of schools. (LN)

Personal interview with Walter Heller, Professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.

Summarizes the child care and welfare provisions of the 1996 welfare reform act. Argues that the new law spells tougher fights ahead to increase or even maintain state child care funding. Urges advocates to "reposition" child care to convince others of its central role in solving social problems. (EV)

This study of the Florida Public Broadcasting Program System, which was conducted by the Program Committee of the Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, focused on five basic issues: (1) What are the current policies and procedures for determining how to add public broadcasting stations to Florida's system? (2) How should Florida fund public…

Reply to an article printed in the April issue. (IRT)

The results of a study conducted by Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL) for the North Carolina State Library to prepare a statewide development plan that will promote improved library service are reported. Basic to this study was the development of guidelines for administering a program of state funding for local public library service. The assignment…