This article describes an innovative approach, developed by North Carolina State University, to prepare leaders specifically for work in rural schools in high poverty districts. Operating with Race-to-the-Top funding, the Northeast Leadership Academy is a selective program with embedded practice and focused summer community internships. The…

Renovation and construction of Texas public schools is occurring at a rapid pace and at high prices. Business continues to blossom in the area of school construction. Several factors influence the need to renovate or construct schools, but the impact curriculum mandates have on school construction is seldom explored. This study investigated the…

In the fifty years since Congress assumed the provision of financial assistance to schools in which students had "federal connection," such as American Indian students living on reservations or in public housing, this federal assistance came to be regarded as a replacement for state funding, not as supplemental funding. This study contends that…

In 1997, the Illinois legislature passed House Bill 542 (Public Act 90-548) which changed teacher tenure requirements to a four-year, multi-tiered system that called for the accumulation of professional development credit for all teachers. The primary purpose of this study was to examine district responses to the 1997 legislation. To what degree,…

Discusses the relationship between higher education and the individual and between higher education and society. (Author/IRT)

Presents arguments against the use of incentives that provide additional state aid for districts that exert additional tax effort, with particular reference to the new school finance plan in Utah. (Author/IRT)

The focus of this article is upon an approach to allocating educational resources which is structured to minimize existing inadequacies in distribution procedures. It also presents some practical problems encountered in initiating a new allocation procedure at the State level. (Author)

Draws attention to a few of the far-reaching implications contained in the 106-page opinion of Judge Bernard S. Jefferson regarding the Serrano case and the unconstitutionality of the California public school financing system. (Author/DN)

Nationwide college enrollments are increasing, and State tax support of annual operations of higher education is also increasing, faster than inflation. There are a few distressed institutions and a few disadvantaged States where enrollments are leveling and where financial support is rising; but these do not change the national picture.…

For the first time in U.S. history, a few mainland States finally enacted school finance laws that will achieve substantial intrastate resource equity, and a larger number of States took important steps in this direction. These States have translated the theory of equity into fact and, as such, they provide the operational models of school finance…

Presents a comparative analysis of the circumstances surrounding the establishment of new programs in the sixties and seventies. At present, the decision to reject new programs is made on the basis of circumstances rather than deliberation, of expediency rather than sound judgment. (Author/IRT)

We must and we can find alternatives in order to survive in our shrinking environment. It is sure that public education can only progress--it is likely that this is the only way it can survive--if we find new ways of cooperation during the next several years of sparse resources. (Author)

Argues that a strong case against increased federal aid to education can be made from intergovernmental and fiscal perspectives. (Author/DN)