Although new federal and state legislation supports programming for children with disabilities, there is no guarantee that reimbursements to the local community will be prompt or efficient. (SB)

This report provides an overview of the 1999-2000 executive budget for New York State. The budget calls for $72.7 billion in all funds spending and proposes that a $1.8 billion surplus from the 1998-99 fiscal year be used to fill budget gaps in fiscal years 2000-01 and 2001-02. The report focuses on spending for education, health and social…

Use of autotutorial laboratories and large-group instruction is compared with traditional methods of teaching biology, anthropology, remedial English, and psychology. (Editor)

A guide for special teachers to use in selecting instructional materials contains nine steps. (MC)

Author argues that television for education gives top value for the money, plus if offers many advantages as an instructional medium. (HB)

In this case study of implementing the program approach to budgeting, the author explores factors responsible for its limited success in school settings. (Author/DN)

Authors describe how a four and one-half minute animated film, The Hare and the Tortoise, was made at the Educational Mass Media Centre, Ethiopia. (HB)

Discusses innovative teacher education programs designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of present day public schools. (Author/RK)

Describes how members of one community organization tried to get their school district to move toward an Educational Planning-Programming Budgeting System. (Authors/MB)

Presents a proposal for a national support program for public schools that guarantees federal funds to meet one-third of the cost of a basic educational program from early childhood through high school graduation, equalizes states' ability to raise school revenues, and subsidizes high-cost programs of compensatory, vocational, and special…

Authors explain the importance of Program Planning and Budgeting Systems and how occupational program managers can use this technique in education. (Editor)

Those responsible for leadership in today's colleges and universities are those engaged in institutional research and those who make and manage the budgets. (HS)

Discusses how management control is exercised over the decentralized Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) with emphasis on problems of communication, program planning and budgeting, and evaluation of performance. (DE)