Volume 25, No. 2
Fall 1999
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
A Lottery’s Impact on Instructional and Non-instructional Expenditures
and Unrestricted Revenues for Education
VANCE Q. LAND, Assistant Professor of Business, Pensacola Junior College,
and MAJEED H. ALSIKAF, Professor of Political Science,
University of Alabama 149
Follow the Money:
An Initial Review of Elementary Charter School Spending in Michigan
HANK PRINCE, Associate Director of the House Fiscal Agency,
Michigan House of Representatives 175
The Fiscal Effects of State Mandated Class Size Requirements in Oklahoma
PAMELA DALE DEERING, Assistant Superintendent for Fiscal Services
for Mid-Del Schools, Midwest City, Oklahoma, and JEFFREY MAIDEN,
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies,
University of Oklahoma 195
The Impact of School Resources on Student Achievement Test Scores
RONALD C. NYHAN, Assistant Professor of Education, and
MOHAMAD G. ALKADRY, PhD Candidate at Florida Atlantic University 211
Distance Education: Implications for Equity and Cost-effectiveness
In the Allocation and Use of Educational Resources
BRIAN O. BRENT, Assistant Professor in the Warner Graduate School,
University of Rochester 229
Patterns of Variation in the Salaries of School Personnel:
What Goes on Behind the Cost Index Numbers?
JAY G. CHAMBERS, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the
Education and Public Sector Finance Group at the American Institutes for
Research, Palo Alto, California 255
SPECIAL SECTION: LEGISLATIVE SECTION
Education Finance Legislative Activity and Trends at the State Level
FAITH E. CRAMPTON, Associate Professor with the Education Finance
and Economics Program Research Unit, National Education Association 281
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