Volume 17, No. 4
Spring 1992
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
International Comparisons of Education Spending: A Review
and Analysis of Reports
DEBORAH VERSTEGEN, ASSOCIATE Professor, Education Policy
and Finance, Curry School of Education, The University of Virginia 257
The 1986 Tax Reform Act and Corporate Contributions to Higher Education
D. GRADY PERDUE, Associate Professor of Finance, MICHAEL E. HANNA,
Associate Professor of Decisions Sciences, and EARL ZACHRY, Associate
Professor of Taxation at the University of Houston-Clear Lake 277
Notes on the Centralization of the Funding and Governance of
Education in Hawaii
JOHN A. THOMPSON, Professor of Education, University of Hawaii 286
School Choice in a Privatized Market: Equity Implications in Zimbabwe
LYNN ILON, State University of New York at Buffalo 303
West Virginia’s School Finance: A Look at the Past and Present
JEANETTE A. SITES, Shepherd College, and RICHARD SALMON,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 318
Voters’ Opinion of School District Property Taxes and Income Taxes:
Results from an Exit-Poll in Ohio
RONALD J. BUSCH, Associate Professor of Political Science, and
DOUGLAS O. STEWART, Associate Professor Economics,
Cleveland State University 337
Update of Selected States’ School Equity Funding Litigation and the Box Score
JOHN A. DIVELY, Research Associate with the Center for the Study of
Educational Finance, Illinois State University and G. ALAN HICKROD,
Distinguished Professor of Educational Administration and Foundations,
Illinois State University and Past President of the American Education
Finance Association 352
BOOK REVIEWS
The Politics of Excellence and Choice in Education, edited by
William Lowe Boyd and Charles Taylor Kerchner
Reviewed by HENRY M. LEVIN, Professor, Stanford University 364
Allies in Reform: How Teachers, Unions, and Administrators Can
Join Forces For Better Schools by Gerome M. Rosow and Robert Zager,
with Jill Casner-Lotto and Associates
Reviewed by DAVID S. HONEYMAN, Associate Professor,
University of Florida and MARY KEATING, Doctoral Candidate,
University of Florida 370
School Restructuring, Chicago Style, by G. Alfred Hess, Jr.
Reviewed by KATHLEEN C. WESTBROOK, Assistant Professor,
Loyola University of Chicago 374
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