Archived K-12 Finance Publications

• A Look at Comparing State Aid to Local School Districts on an Interstate Basis
• A Pilot Study of the Possible Adjustments to the Wealth Measurement in Illinois
• A Proposal for Distribution of Federal Block Grant Funds in Illinois
• A Proposed Plan for Altering the Present State Aid System (pdf)
• A Study of the Costs of Driver Education Program in the Public Schools of Illinois
• A Study of the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Variables and Tax Effort to Support Public Schools in Illinois
• Additional Approaches of Measurement of Equity In Illinois Public School Finance
• Alternative Measures of Local Wealth and Effort
• Alternatives in Educational Expenditure Policy for the State of Illinois
• Characteristics of School Districts: Applying for Federal Funds under ESEA, 1974 Title Four, Part C
• Conditional Wealth Neutrality as School Finance Equity Criterion in Illinois
• Cost-Size Relationships Among School Districts in Illinois
• Definition, Measurement, and Application of the Concept of Equalization in School Finance
• Enrollment Change and Educational Personnel Change in the K-12 Schools in Illinois
• Equity as a Goal of Elementary and Secondary School Finance in the United States
• Equity Measurements in School Finance: Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois
• ERIC Search Summary of 56 Articles Published by G. Alan Hickrod from 1969 to 1993
• Final Report: Special Education Revenue Tracking Project
• Financial Problems of Central City School Districts in Illinois
• Funding Adjustments for Educational Overburden and Cost Differentials: Implications for Urban Districts in Illinois
• Illinois School Finance in Era of Property Tax Relief
• Illinois School Financial Research: Some Knowns and Unknowns
• Increasing Social and Economic Inequalities Among Suburban Schools
• Measurement of School Revenue Equity in the States of Illinois, Michigan, and Kansas
• Optimum Size of School Districts Relative to Selected Costs
• Personal Property Tax: The Effects of Its Loss on Illinois Schools
• Private Sector Support of K-12 Education: A Review of Selected Programs in 17 States and Recommendations for Illinois
• Proposal for Venture Capital Grant: A Programmatic Approach to Excellence in Illinois Public Schools
• Reform and Counter Reform: An Historical Examination of Perceived Political Activity
• Reformation and Counter Reformation in Illinois School Finance: 1973-1981
• Research Agenda for School Finance Reform in Illinois
• Return to the Two Tier Funding Notion in Illinois
• Revenue Tracking Procedures: An Appendix to a Research Report Entitled: Final Report
• Reward for Effort in Illinois School Finance: Policy Debate, Empirical Evidence, Legislative Implications
• School District Census Geo-Reference File for Illinois for 1980
• School Finance Reform and Suburban Districts
• Selected Cost-Size Relationship of High School Districts in Central Illinois
• The 1973 Reform of the Illinois General Purpose Grant in Aid - A Description and Evaluation
• The 1973 Reform of the Illinois General Purpose Grant in Aid - An Evaluation After Three Years
• The 1973 School Finance Reform in Illinois: Quo Jure? or Quo Vadis?
• The Changed/Changing Educational Scene: The State of the Art
• The Concept of Fiscal Effort in the Illinois General Purpose Educational Grant-In-Aid
• The Cost-Sharing Proposal for the Investigation of Changes in the Illinois General Purpose Educational Grant-In-Aid
• The Effect of Consolidation of Elementary and Secondary Districts into Unit Districts In Illinois Upon Equity Goals in that State
• The Effects of Public Act 80-247(The Farmland Assessment Act) on Illinois School Finance
• The Illinois General Purpose Grant-in-Aid System 1979-80
• The Illinois General Purpose Grant-in-Aid System 1979-80, Part 2
• The Illinois State Aid Equalization Study Funded by the U.S. Office of Education
• The Loss of Corporate Personal Property Tax and Its Effect on Illinois Schools
• Toward the Restoration in Illinois K-12 Finance
• Wealth Neutrality and Conditional Wealth Neutrality as Goals of Special Education Finance in Illinois