Describes how a Michigan school district transformed several free-standing, "warm-weather" high school buildings into clustered areas connected by enclosed corridors. Space is now grouped by instructional area or the use of related equipment, and the building shell is tight and energy-efficient. (MLH)

Presents drawings of three buildings to show ways of designing for energy conservation, accommodation of the handicapped, and the conversion of surplus schools to other uses. (IRT)

Briefly describes each of 56 exemplary school modernization and renovation projects throughout the U.S. and lists a person at each site to contact for more information. (JG)

Describes how renovation and a little imagination can convert a city's older commercial buildings into sensitive, supportive quarters for education. The demographic changes within New York are offered as an example to other cities of the need for new kinds of facilities, rather than the need for new additional structures. (Author/WM)

An Illinois school district leased a vacant school building to a local hospital, and was then ruled by the county tax office to have lost the building's tax-exempt status and to owe property taxes. Districts interested in leasing school property are advised to hire an attorney who specializes in real estate. (MLF)

The Frontier board of education took a dilapidated World War I-vintage school and turned it into a stellar example of open space planning coupled with similarly updated teaching techniques. (Author)

Guidelines are offered for profitably disposing of surplus school property. Included are instructions for conducting building and site analyses and market studies. (MLF)