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Rebuilding Trust and Relationships between Your Community and School District
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Chappelow, Marsha; Reznikov, Kathleen – Journal of School Public Relations, 2007
After a failed tax levy in 2004, the Ladue School District in Missouri realized that it had to significantly change its communication methods. A new superintendent was hired in July 2004 to work with the Board of Education to reestablish relationships and increase effective communications with parents and community members. As such, we are the…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), School Community Relationship, Public Schools, School Districts
Show Some Initiative.
Kinder, Jack A. – American School Board Journal, 1992
An initiative petition passed in 1982 for a 1-cent sales tax accounted for between 13 and 15 percent of the total public school budget in Missouri as of the 1991-92 school year. Outlines the steps necessary to gather the necessary signatures from registered voters and to get the measure approved. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Political Campaigns, Politics of Education, Public Schools
Unintended Consequences of Property Revaluation.
Jacobson, Stephen L.; Luce, Judith A. – School Business Affairs, 1988
Examines a school district's experience with property revaluation that produced a 33 percent increase in the school taxes of some residential property owners. When small segments of different municipalities comprise the same school district, revaluation may shift the local tax burden. District administrators should prepare for potential changes.…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Elementary Secondary Education, Property Appraisal, Property Taxes
A Michigan School Money Primer for Policymakers, School Officials, Media and Residents
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Olson, Ryan S.; LaFaive, Michael D. – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2007
The system that finances Michigan's schools from kindergarten through 12th grade is a perennial topic of conversation among policymakers, parents, taxpayers and voters. A constructive discussion of this issue, however, requires a sound knowledge of the financial workings of Michigan's elementary and secondary school system. This knowledge is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Agencies, Public Schools, Money Management
Unreserved Fund Balance and Public School System Finance.
Allen, Ian J. – School Business Affairs, 1991
School districts can improve their chances of avoiding financial difficulty by developing unreserved fund balance resources specifically for contingencies. Offers guidelines for establishing such a fund. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Budgeting, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Finance.
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Rossmiller, Richard A.; Rossmiller, Daniel M. – 1983
Cases related to school finance, in which decisions were handed down in 1982, are reviewed in this chapter. It is observed that the constitutionality of existing state school finance programs was upheld in New York, Colorado, and Georgia, and that litigation was prevalent in the areas of taxation for schools and uses of school revenue. Issues…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Administration, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
The Yearbook of School Law, 1983.
Piele, Philip K., Ed. – 1983
This comprehensive reference reviews court decisions affecting the operation, management, and governance of public schools. This edition analyzes all public school cases decided during the 1982 calendar years and reported in West's Regional, Federal, and Supreme Court Resports, through the December 1982 advance sheets. Included as well are 1981…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Law, Desegregation Litigation