Tuition

The second of four final reports from the Department of Education's School Finance Project presents information relevant to the subject of federal financial support to private school students and parents. An executive summary is followed by the introduction and the organizational outline of the report. Chapter 2 draws on information from existing data collections and surveys to provide a synthesis of the current literature on trends in private school enrollments and costs, state relationships with private schools, and federal assistance for private school children. Chapter 3 identifies and describes the major aid proposals considered in recent years and reviews important arguments on both sides ofI:he issue of aid for families with children in private schools. Chapter 4 presents the results of a survey of approximately 1,200 households with school-age children on factors associated with current parenta