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Piele, Philip K. – 1979
Reflecting widespread unhappiness with the growing tax burdens in this country, the most active area of litigation reported in the property chapter this year involves various attempts by taxpayers to prevent the construction or remodeling of public school facilities. While some taxpayers fought to keep schools from being built, others in New York…
Descriptors: Bids, Boards of Education, Bond Issues, Constitutional Law
Piele, Philip K. – 1972
This review surveys recent literature that reflects a wide variety of research techniques and methods. These writings, previously announced in RIE, should provide administrators with some insights into variables that affect the outcome of school financial elections. Divided into four major parts, the review includes literature that (1) deals with…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Bond Issues, Educational Finance, Literature Reviews
Piele, Philip K.; Hall, John Stuart – 1973
This book summarizes and analyzes empirical research on voting in school financial elections, based on more than 100 research reports published since 1960. In their discussion, the authors attempt to objectively catalogue significant research findings, as well as to evaluate the findings and relate them to each other. Chapter 1 introduces the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Bond Issues, Educational Finance
Piele, Philip K. – 1980
Chapter 7 of a book on school law, this chapter deals with 1979 cases involving disputes over property. Cases involving taxpayer attempts to prevent the construction of school buildings dominate this year's property chapter, as they did last year's. Yet, paradoxically, there is also a significant increase in cases in which taxpayers tried to…
Descriptors: Bids, Boards of Education, Bond Issues, Compensation (Remuneration)
Piele, Philip K. – 1978
Numerous cases in this year's chapter dealt with the same topics of previous years--contracts and bids for building construction, and detachment and annexation of a portion of a school district. The courts continued to attribute board discretionary authority to school boards in school property matters. Intergovernmental disputes over ownership or…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Bond Issues, Constitutional Law, Contracts
Piele, Philip K.; Johnson, Margaret M. – 1981
While the number of cases dealing with school property issues was significantly lower than in previous years, a significant number of cases involving the detachment and attachment of land to school districts arose. Eight of the eleven cases dealing with land detachment come from Illinois. The cases concerned requests from parents that their…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Bond Issues, Contracts, Court Litigation
Piele, Philip K.; Forsberg, James R. – 1977
While the types of cases reported in this year's chapter are essentially the same as those reported in last year's, the number of certain types of cases have changed--in some instances significantly. For example, the number of cases raising constitutional issues in the areas of school construction, location, and property use have declined. On the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Bond Issues, Constitutional Law, Contracts
Piele, Philip K.; Hall, John Stuart – 1973
In this paper, the authors attempt to provide a basic outline of what is known about the determinants of success or failure in school financial elections. The research, conducted since 1960, comes from several academic disciplines, employs a wide variety of techniques and methods, and is geographically representative of the United States.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bond Issues, Community Attitudes, Community Responsibility
Piele, Philip K. – 1973
The combination of defeated bond issues and rising building costs is contributing to a decline in both the construction of new school buildings and the remodeling of existing buildings. For the first time in many years, debt service and capital outlay expenditures actually declined on a per pupil basis. No change in either voter preferences or…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Construction Costs, Educational Facilities
Piele, Philip K.; Forsberg, James R. – 1974
The 1973 court cases relating to school property continued a trend toward litigating constitutional issues. For instance, a larger number of cases dealt with the relationship between the location and construction of school buildings and school desegregation plans. This chapter reviews the status and development of case law relating to school…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Bids, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education