bd 20 ajanina CONTENTS Alexander, Dr. Kern, director, Institute for Educational Finance, Universi- ty of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Berke, Dr. Joel, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education-Designate (Poli- cy Development), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, accom- panied by Dr. Ray Peterson, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Ginsburg, Dr. Alan, Director, Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, et cetera- Alexander, Dr. Kern, director, Institute for Educational Finance, Universi- Berke, Dr. Joel S., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education (Policy Ginsburg, Dr. Alan, director, Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Figure 1-Total cost in 1975 of reducing within-State disparity ratios to Table 1-Trends with respect to within-State differences in per-Pupil Table 2-Changes between 1970 and 1975 in the relative costs of Hodge, Michael V., director, School Finance Reform Project, National Jordan, Dr. K. Forbis, senior specialist in education, Congressional Re- Memorandum to Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Voca- Supplementary materials for the hearing record of October 14, 1977... 185 Long, David C., director, School Finance Reform Project of the Lawyers' Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, etc.-Cont. Odden, Allen, director, Education Finance Center, Education Commission Letter to Jack Jennings, with enclosures, dated October 6, 1977 Quindry, Kenneth E., research professor, Center for Business and Econom- ic Research, College of Business Administration, the University of Ten- nessee, Knoxville, prepared statement "Summary of State-Wide School Finance Cases Since 1973," a booklet APPENDIXES "School Finance Reform in the Seventies: Achievements and Failures," by Lawrence L. Brown III, Alan L. Ginsburg, Neil J. Killalea, and Esther "The School Finance Activities of the National Institute of Education," by Denis P. Doyle, Chief, and David R. Mandel, Program Officer, School Finance and Organization Division, National Institute of Education National Conference of State Legislatures reports: "Big City Schools: 1970-1975-A Profile of Changing Fiscal Pressures," by John J. Callahan, Seymour Sacks, and William H. Wilken. "State School Finance Reform in the 1970's (Excerpted from School Hickrod, Dr. G. Alan, Director, and Hubbard, Dr. Ben C., Co-Director, Center for the Study of Educational Finance, Illinois State Universi- ty, letter to Ms. Nancy Kober including views on H.R. 1138 Benson, Dr. Charles S., Professor, University of California, Berkeley, letter to Ms. Nancy Kober including comments on H.R. 1138.............. 413 Letter from Chairman Perkins to Dr. Mary Berry, Assistant Secretary for Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, October 3, 1977, requesting additional material for hearing record.. Response to Chairman Perkins' letter from Dr. Mary Berry. "Congress' Role in Fostering High Aspirations for Equal Educational Opportunity Among the States" by Mr. David C. Long, Director, School Finance Reform Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under PART 13: SCHOOL FINANCE ACT OF 1977 AND EQUALIZATION EFFORTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1977 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice at 8:30 a.m., in room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building, the Hon. Ronald Mottl, presiding. Members present: Representatives Perkins, Mottl, and Quie. Staff present: John F. Jennings, majority counsel; Christopher Cross, minority senior education consultant; and Nancy L. Kober, staff assistant. [Text of H.R. 1138 follows:] (1) 95TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1138 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 4, 1977 Mr. PERKINS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To assist the States and local educational agencies in providing educational programs of high quality in elementary and secondary schools and to assist the States in equalizing educational opportunity, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That this Act may be cited as the "School Finance Act of 4 1977". 5 6 7 TITLE I-BASIC GRANTS FINDING AND PURPOSE SEC. 101. (a) The Congress finds that while the pri8 mary responsibility for providing elementary and secondary 9 education rests with the States the Federal Government has |