Volume 12, No. 1
Summer 1986
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Economic-Based, Tri-Level Funding for Nebraska's Public Schools
C. COLE HUDSON, Professor, Department of Educational
Administration Teachers College, University of Nebraska 1
Vouchers for the Education of Disadvantaged Children:
Analysis of the Reagan Administration Proposal
WAYNE RIDDLE, Specialist in Education, Education and Public
Welfare Division, Congressional Research Service, The
Library of Congress 9
A Case Study of Choice in Education:
Separate Schools in Ontario
STEPHEN B. LAWTON, Professor, The Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education 36
A School Finance Research Agenda for an Era of Education Reform
ALLAN ODDEN, Associate Professor and Director, Southern
California Policy Analysis for California Education Center,
School of Education, University of Southern California 49
The Good School District: A Critical Examination of the
Adequacy of Student Achievement and Per Pupil Expenditures
as Measures of School District Effectiveness
PETER COLEMAN, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, British Columbia 71
The Distribution of Staff in New York State School
Districts 1984-1985
JOAN SCHEUER, a consultant in New York City 97
The Impact of Federal Compensatory Education Budget
Changes on the Intensity of Services Provided
MARTIN E. ORLAND, Senior Associate, Office of
Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department
of Education and RICHARD APLING, Senior Associate,
Policy Studies Associates, Washington, D.C. 122
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Forecasting School District Fiscal Health
CURTIS A. SMITH, Superintendent of Schools,
Wooster, Ohio 140
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of The Fiscal, Legal, and Political Aspects of State
Reform of Elementary and Secondary Education, edited by
Van D. Mueller and Mary P. McKeown
Reviewed by R. CRAIG WOOD, Associate Professor,
Purdue University 154
Review of The Public School Monopoly: A Critical Analysis
of Education and the State in American Society, by
Robert B. Everhart
Reviewed by JAMES G. WARD, Assistant Professor
of Educational Administration, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign 159
Review of Significant Features of Fiscal Federalism 1985-1986,
Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations,
The National Finances, 1984-1985 Canadian Tax
Foundation, and Provinicial and
Municipal Finances 1983,
Canadian Tax Foundation
Reviewed by STEPHEN B. LAWTON, Associate
Professor of Education Administration, The Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education 162
Review of What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning,
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1986.
Reviewed by DIANA G. POUNDER, Assistant
Professor, Department of Educational Administration,
Louisiana State University 166
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