Volume 10, No. 4
Spring 1985
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Fiscal Equity for Public Schools in a Non-Reform State:
North Carolina, 1975 to 1983
BETTYE MacPHAIL-WILCOX, Assistant Professor,
North Carolina State University 417
School District Responses To Enrollment Changes:
The Direction of Change Matters!
EDWARD S. CAVIN and RANDALL S. BROWN are
associated with Mathematica Policy Research and
RICHARD J. MURNANE is Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University 426
Obstacles to Educational Equity: State Reform and
Local Response in Massachusetts, 1978-1983
EDWARD MORGAN, Associate Professor,
Government Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 441
Federal Equalisation Funding of Schools in Australia
NORMAN J. THOMSON, Reader in Economics,
Director, Centre for South Australian Economic
Studies, and Dean, Faculty of Economics,
University of Adelaide 460
Rates of Return for Higher Education in Japan:
Implications for Planning and Governance
KATSUJI OKACHI, Professor of Economics,
Osaka Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan 474
Public School Bonding Corporations Financing
Public Elementary and Secondary School Facilities
WILLIAM E. CAMP, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and
RICHARD G. SALMON, Associate Professor,
Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia 495
LEGISLATION
Special Report: Texas School Finance Update
BILLY D. WALKER, Business Manager,
Ector County Independent School District, Odessa, Texas 504
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Redistributing Federal Aid to Education: Chapter 2 of the
Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981
DEBORAH A. VERSTEGEN, Assistant Professor,
Department of Educational Administration,
University of Texas at Austin 517
A Seven-Year Fiscal Equalization Analysis of the
Virginia Public School Finance Program
HELENE BOE JONES, Educational Finance Consultant
and Adjunct Professor, Blacksburg, Virginia and
RICHARD G. SALMON, Associate Professor,
Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia 524
COMMENT
Some School Finance Issues Related to the
Implementation of Serrano and Proposition 13
DONALD WICKERT, Assistant Professor, School
of Education, University of Southern California 535
INDEX 543
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