CONTRACT OEC-0-8-080353-3514

The combination of defeated bond issues and rising building costs is contributing to a decline in both the construction of new school buildings and th6xemodeling of existing buildings. For the first time-in-many years, debt service and capital outlay expenditures actually-declined on a per pupil Lasis.....No-change in either voter preferences or inflationary trends appear imminent.-If needed school facilities are to be built, it is clear that alt.:.rnative means of financing school construction must be found. Solutiohs to the problem of financing school construction have been rmggested by several experi'S-11ri the-field. The most thorough analyses of the _problem have been-made by the NationaVEddcational Finance 2rojeceland_the Educational Facilities, Laboratories. These and other':--analyses are reviewed along with bibliographies on the subject..-N-ine-of the documents contained in this review are available.through th