A review of the 69 Missouri school bonds during fiscal year 1975 was made to determine the extent that various factors influence rates. (Author)

How Ohio's Lakewood District built a school out of operating funds. (Author)

An Iowa architect reveals some surprising results of a study on how to secure voter approval. (Author)

Examines the effects of including technology funding in Oklahoma school district bond issues on their voting percentages and pass/fail rates during fiscal years 1995-96 through 1999-2000. Finds that percent of technology funding included in bond issue dollar amount was significantly related to positive voting percentages and predictive of issue…

This book offers the strategies and techniques that administrators, the board of education, and a group of volunteers in one school district utilized in a successful 15-month referendum battle. The book has 16 chapters. Chapter 1 examines trends, voter attitudes, and facing reality. Chapter 2 outlines the basics for starting a referendum, and…

Explores ways to keep school construction costs in line from initial programing and preliminary design through construction and financing. (Author)

The California Supreme Court rule on June 30th that local bond issues requiring two-thirds voter approval for passage violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (Westbrook v. Mihaly). (MF)

Tongue-in-cheek account contains 10 useful suggestions for passage of referendums. (DE)

Bond ratings are an assessment by an independent rating agency of the credit worthiness of a bond issuer, such as a school district, on repayment of a particular bond issue. Describes the rating procedures Standard and Poor's Municipal Finance Department uses to assign bond ratings. (MLF)

THIS REPORT OUTLINES SUGGESTIONS FOR CONDUCTING SCHOOL BOND CAMPAIGNS. ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS AN ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD TAKE IS TO EVALUATE THE FACTORS IMPORTANT TO THE SELLING OF BONDS--STIMULATE INTEREST IN INVESTMENT DEALERS THEREBY INCREASING COMPETITION FOR BONDS, PREPARE A COMPLETE ACCURATE PROSPECTUS, CIRCULATE THE PROSPECTUS AMONG BOND…

Information is provided concerning the sale of bonds for construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities. It is intended for use by administrators, board members, and the general public who must repay these bonds and hence must have some knowledge of their financing. A general description of the characteristics of public school…

Citizen involvement is the key to school planning and getting the voters to approve the bond issues in a fast-growing Michigan district. (Author/MLF)