In the winter of 2000-2002, the budget negotiations in Albany began with a lot of excitement about educational funding reform. Budget proposals from the Regents, the Assembly, and the Governor all included reform language ...

For independent school districts in New York State, Building Aid does a fairly good job of progressively distributing funds for equipment and capital outlays. But the same is not true for the five big cities with dependent ...

A proposal in the New York State Assembly in 2000 considered eliminating Tax Equalization Aid to school districts in order to fund the elimination of aid caps, called Transition Adjustment. In response to that proposal, ...

The European Union has undertaken a large number of initiatives in the education field, both in promoting exchanges of students internally and with non-union countries, and in encouraging the development of European studies ...

This report on the new vision for Magreb economic integration argues that assessing the benefits from regional integration can best be done in the context of the broader issues of economic integration in the world economy ...

The purpose of this report is to examine the effects of School Tax Relief Aid (STAR) on the distribution of New York State aid to school districts. This report finds that STAR so heavily favors wealthier districts that it ...

The theme of good governance and human rights (GGHR) in the EU-GCC dialogue needs to be addressed in tandem with those of political and security cooperation on the wider Gulf and on the Palestine issue. It also should be ...

This paper deals with security and international affairs as a dialogue subject between the EU and GCC. The EU, and EU governments, cannot escape the need to address security issues and international affairs in their dialogue ...