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This article examines issues in the presentation of factual evidence in school finance litigation. It focuses specifically on statistical measures of dispersion which have been included in Berne and Steifel's framework for analyzing distributional equity. It identifies the methodological issues that must be recognized when these measures are used in litigation, and the properties/characteristics of individual measures that may lead courts to different determinations about "equity" in school finance.

The impact of school desegregation, & concomitant white flight to private schools, on local financial support of SC public schools is assessed. Data are derived from district-level statistics for 1965/66, 1969/70, & 1974/75. School desegregation was found to be accompanied by increased tax rates & local revenue discrepancies between predominantly white & predominantly black districts. Further, during the desegregation period, the racial composition of the school district & school board fiscal dependence became the major determinants of a school district's tax efforts. 3 Tables. Modified HA.

Invitation from Jahazial Sherman to Alden Partridge to stay in Sherman's home in Vergennes, Vermont, during an upcoming pedestrian excursion (of students at Partridge's academy in Norwich, Vermont?). ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Jahazial Sherman writes from Vergennes, Vermont, to Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont; he is sending his son, Walter W. Sherman, to Partridge's Academy in Norwich. ; Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Jahazial Sherman writes from a steam boat off Burlington, Vermont, to Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont; he indicates that his son, Walter Sherman, wishes to come home from Partridge's academy for a short visit. Letter writer was misidentified as Zehaziel Sherman in William Arba Ellis' history of Norwich University. ; Transcription by L. Gregory Curtis, NU'77, MSIA'07. Transcriptions may be subject to error.