This report contains nine speeches on various aspects of public school finance. Topics discussed include recent educational finance legislation, equalization aid, full State funding, property tax reform, and urban school finance reform. One speech describes the national public school finance picture; two others detail the Georgia school finance system. The future of the public schools and alternatives to the present school finance system are the topics of two other speeches. The report ends with a summary of the speeches and with a statement giving the positions of a majority of conference participants on various issues of school finance reform. Biographical author sketches are also included. (Author/DN)