Subject files concerning state financial aid for education
Series Number
L0226
Summary
These files document Lois Wilson's work with education policy through the Task Force on Implementing Educational Reform; Commission on the Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education (Fleischmann Commission, 1972); Task Force on State Aid to Elementary and Secondary Schools; and the Temporary State Commission on the Distribution of State Aid to Local School Districts. Included are reports; legal briefs, opinions, and decisions; statistics; written responses; pre-trial examinations; and files on court cases including Levittown v. Nyquist.
Creator
New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Education Committee
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The Commission on Higher Education was established to study and make recommendations on how New York State conceives, organizes, and funds post-secondary education. This series consists of subject files for the Commission and its subcommittees, which include Tuition and Student Aid, Subcommittee on Finance, Subcommittee on Access, Quality and Student Flow, and Information Technologies. Also included are meeting minutes, cassette recordings of meetings, papers, reports, and incoming and outgoing correspondence.
Creator
New York (State). Regents Commission on Higher Education
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Deputy Secretary to the Governor subject files concerning state financial aid for education
Series Number
B1220
Summary
In 1969, Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Board of Regents created the New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education. School financing recommendations made by the commission, which would have increased school taxes in upstate districts and reduced school expenditures in a significant number of downstate suburban districts, were never implemented. These files were generated by staff of the governor's office in the course of researching and making recommendations regarding state aid for education.
Creator
New York (State). Governor. Deputy Secretary to the Governor
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Special Assistant to the Governor for Education school finance meeting, background, and correspondence files
Series Number
14145
Summary
Lois Wilson coordinated research and development of policy recommendations concerning education, particularly educational finance. These records served as background materials for, or resulted from, Ms. Wilson's meetings with state agency officials and representatives of school districts and educational organizations. The series includes analyses of school finance inequities and proposals for alternative state aid formulas; evaluation of and proposals for improving teacher effectiveness; correspondence; statistical data regarding state aid; speeches; press releases; legislative bill proposals; and meeting reports.
Creator
New York (State). Governor. Special Assistant to the Governor for Education
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There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Division of the Budget Education Unit School Finance Law Study working files
Series Number
14148
Summary
This series consists of files relating to a study of the financing of public education in New York State. The files were compiled by the office of Lois J. Wilson, Special Assistant for Education in the Education Unit of the Division of the Budget. The series contains a copy of the federal grant application which secured funding for the study, as well as progress reports, related correspondence, memorandums, statistical tables, and unpublished studies.
Creator
New York (State). Division of the Budget. Education Unit
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There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.