Volume 16, No. 2
Fall 1990
CONTENTS
SPECIAL EDITION: Fiscal Policies for Rural Schools
Introduction to the Special Issue
MARY F. HUGHES, Research and Development Specialist, Rural, Small Schools
Program, Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Charleston, WV III
Rural Education: Institutionalization of Disadvantage
KERN ALEXANDER, University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University 121
State School Finance Programs and Their Influence on Rural Schools
And School Districts
RICHARD G. SALMON, Professor of Educational Administration,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 130
Demographic Shifts and State Fiscal Capacities Affecting Public Elementary
and Secondary Education in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia,
and West Virginia
R. CRAIG WOOD, Professor and Chair, C-Director UCEA Center for
Education Finance, University of Florida, and PATRICIA CAHAPE, Rural,
Small Schools Program, Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Charleston, WV 148
Efficiency and Economies-of-Scale Revisited: Implications for Financing
Rural School Districts
DEBORAH A. VERSTEGEN, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia 159
Isolation/Sparsity
GERALD R. BASS, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University 180
Consolidation of Rural Schools: Reform or Relapse?
DAVID C. THOMPSON, Professor, Co-director of the UCEA Center
for Education Finance, Kansas State University 192
Educational Costs and Small Rural Schools
DAVID H. MONK, Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 213
Public School Pupil Transportation: Rural Schools
M. DAVID ALEXANDER, Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 226
School Facilities and State Mechanisms That Support School Construction:
A Report from the Fifty States
DAVID S. HONEYMAN, Associate Professor, Co-director of the UCEA
Center for Education Finance, University of Florida 247
Some Reflections on Fiscal Policies for Rural Schools
E. ROBERT STEPHENS, Professor, University of Maryland 273
About the Authors
MARY F. HUGHES, Research and Development Specialist, Rural,
Small Schools Program, Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Charleston, WV 285
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