New York State provides aid to local schools in a way that is unfair to the neediest school districts with high educational needs or low property wealth. Proposed in this policy brief is a new formula for state aid based on a comprehensive educational cost index and a school performance index that reflects an average passing rate on the new…

The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant (Title V of the Social Security Act) has operated as a federal-state partnership since the Social Security Act was passed in 1935. Through Title V, the federal government pledged its support of state efforts to extend health and welfare services for mothers and children. Title V has been…

Property taxes for the cost of educational programs should be virtually eliminated. (Author/JN)

Revenue sharing is designed to meet the needs of the Federal Government -- not the needs of the State. (Author/JN)

Describes employment services, counseling, placement, training, and grants to help unemployed former aerospace engineers and scientists. (MF)

In addition to describing how general revenue sharing works and what it means for state and local governments in terms of some new responsibilities for managing these revenues, this article attempts to analyze the impact these new responsibilities may have on the management capabilities of local governments. (Author/NQ)

Focusing on financial inequality between regions as well as communities and upon integration, this article reviews some studies made on educational equality and on the problems which continually prevent its being implemented. (JB)

Urges school board members and superintendents to compel increased federal and state school support. (JF)

Lists some developments in educational finance and stresses the need for community and junior college educators to understand the problems of educational economics and to ensure that their opinions are heard by the state and federal government. (Author/RK)

A survey to find what part of the bill for education the State will be paying. (EA)

Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCOR), a National Science Foundation-funded program is in the third year of its five-year grants to scientists in five states. Program objectives, financial support (including cost-sharing by states), state programs resulting from EPSCOR, and EPSCOR achievements are discussed. (JN)

Found that states prohibiting institutionalization of status offenders and juvenile delinquents were no more likely to provide high levels of child foster care and protective services under Title XX than states not prohibiting institutionalization. (Author)

An annotated bibliography from the ERIC index, "Resources in Education," presents 27 resources covering the governmental impact on education in such areas as accountability, the relationship of government and higher education, and the impact of federal legislation on education. (JN)