FINANCING OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION HEARINGS BEFORE THE GENERAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. Write L States. Congress. Λ House. OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 44, H.R. 128, H.R. 981, H.R. 1491, H.R. 6179, TO INCREASE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT PURPOSES 80-973 O HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1972 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR EDITH GREEN, Oregon CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey KF27 1972b ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina EDWIN B. FORSYTHE, New Jersey VICTOR V. VEYSEY, California JACK F. KEMP, New York PETER A. PEYSER, New York Berke, Joel S., director, educational finance and governance program, Policy Institute of the Syracuse University Research Corp. and Carey, Mrs. Sarah C., assistant director, Lawyers' Committee for 270 Hatter, Terry J., Jr., Western Center on Law and Poverty of Los 279 Haydock, Roger, legal assistant of Ramsey County, St. Paul, Minn... Horton, Hon. Frank, a Representative in Congress from the State of Johns, Roe, project director, national educational finance project, 457 Karsh, Norman, Executive Director, President's Commission on 421 Levin, Betsy, director of education studies, the Urban Institute, ac- companied by Dr. Thomas Muller; William Scanlon; and Joel S. Berke, director Educational Finance and Governance Program Policy Institute of the Syracuse University Research Corp----. Statement of-Continued Myers, Gill, Paul Van de Water, and Charles Revier, Advisory Com- Page mission on Intergovernmental Relations, as a panel. Ruvoldt, Harold, attorney, Jersey City, N.J. 507 317 Scott, Hon. Robert W., Governor of North Carolina, chairman of the education commission of the States representing the National Governors' Conference... 396 Selden, David, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Bell, Hon. Alphonzo, a Representative in Congress from the State of Berke, Joel S., director, educational finance and governance program, "A Brief Summary of Recent School Finance Reform Activity," "Civil Action-Opinion," superior court of New Jersey- 127 540 157 492 268 234 208, 212 "Lawyers' Committee Expands Its Finance Project," a com- 184 "L.A. 29820 (Super. Ct. No. 938254)," a Supreme Court case 186 "Memorandum and Order No. 3-71 Civ. 243," in the U.S. Dis- 203 Statement of.. 178 "School Taxing and Spending Systems Valid Under Serrano v. 265 Dow, Hon. John G., a Representative in Congress from the State of 501 Ford, Hon. William D., a Representative in Congress from the State "Quality School Assistance Act," a statement entitled, delivered Hatter Terry J., Jr., Western Center on Law and Poverty, Los Angeles, 276 Haydock, Roger S., chief counsel, Legal Assistance of Ramsey County, Appendix I.-Results of school financing discrimination (charts). Johns, R. L., project director, National Educational Finance Project, 291 294 289 477 Karsh, Norman, executive director, President's Commission on School recommendations.. 424 Kirst, Michael W., Schools of Education and Business Administra- "Rationales for Differential Funding," a paper entitled.. 611 605 Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.-Continued Press summary of the Fleischmann's Commission's report_. California-Expenditures by type of district, 1968-69 (chart)____ California-State income tax as an alternative to property tax for Combined State/local tax burden for education by selected income Page 342 390 589 603 604 594 Combined tax burden for sample States, 1968-69 (chart). 593 599 Effective property tax rates for education as a proportion of total 590 Michigan measures of student need, 1968-69 (chart) 600 Property values and property tax rates by type of district, 1968- 589 Revenue by source and type of district, all study States, 1968-69 591 Revenues by source and type of district, all study States, 1968-69 592 State sales tax an alternative to property tax for education 602 Statement of.. 487 Teacher characteristics, 1968-69 (chart) _ _ 596 Mammenga, Sen. Gene, member, education committee, Minnesota Comparison by school district of H.F. 5 (vetoed bill) and October 368 Comparison of present school maintenance mill rates with those 361 364 School finance reform and, property tax reduction; the Minnesota 358 McElroy, Neil, chairman of the President's Commission on School 421 McLoone, Dr. Eugene P., associate professor of Economics and "Finances of Large-City School Systems," a comparative analysis 642 "HEW News," a press release.. 643 641 Statement of.. Myers, Will, senior analyst, Advisory Commission on Intergovern- "ACIR Recommendations on the State Responsibility for Fi- 524 "Published Reviews of the Advisory Commission on Inter- 509 Statement of... 513 Pucinski, Hon. Roman C., chairman, General Subcommittee on Ruvoldt, Harold J., Jr., partner in the law firm of Ruvoldt & Ruvoldt, Appendix I. "To Satisfy the Deep Hunger for Learning," an 313 Appendix II.-"Address to New Jersey School Boards Associa- 315 312 |