An ambitious school and community drug education program won community support after the appearance of a controversial school newspaper article featuring an anonymous interview with a drug pusher drew national attention to the problem of drug abuse in the community and schools. (DCS)

Eight New Mexico Citizen Advisory Councils identified competencies within essential task areas for councils in community school settings. Task areas cited include fiscal management, programing, facilities use, identifying community resources, publicity, and organization and administration of the program. Productivity can be enhanced by identifying…

The community school does not start at 3:30 p.m. This is the notion that the writer tries to get across as he illustrates how to expand the concept of community education into the traditional day school program. (Editor)

Educational administrators should exercise leadership by incorporating the resources of the community into educational programs and meeting the needs of the community. (Author/MLF)

Article suggests a model for training members of school-community councils. (GB)

The NSPRA is dedicated to helping practicing school administrators establish and pursue meaningful programs in public relations. (Editor)

Author describes with some winning practical advice, how schools can run successful campaigns for referenda. (GB)

By using the deductive or the inductive approach to needs assessment, or a combination of both approaches, school administrators can allocate physical or human resources in accordance with community priorities. (DCS)

Describes the support given by a Miami (Florida) area chamber of commerce to a group of junior high school students starting a school-based junior chamber of commerce. Visits by chamber members to the school and by students to chamber meetings and local businesses were part of the program. (PGD)

By focusing on the entire community as stakeholders in the public schools, the school board, the superintendent, and principals are forced to identify and cultivate the diverse groups in the community. Eight essential steps to developing an effective stakeholder management strategy are listed. (Author/DCS)

Local districts can assess public opinion concerning the schools by adapting the questions asked and the data analysis methods used in national Gallup polls for use in local surveys. A comparison of national poll results with results of polls in four Arizona cities illustrates the value of this concept. (PGD)

Despite discouragement about what a couple of studies reveal about some administrators' views of community education, these authors are optimistic that the concept can help schools cope with today's problems and that, perhaps, it holds the key to positive change. (Editor)

The demand for community involvement in the educational process can be satisfied, and the administrator may find a valuable source of support in the process if the authors' 12 suggestions are followed. (Editor/RK)