This brief examines the major findings of researchers who have investigated the behavior of voters in school financial elections and then suggests appropriate action school administrators can take to make the most of the challenge they face in securing voter approval of funds to operate the schools. Among the factors influencing voter behavior are…

A demographic fact is that the population is made up of an increasingly larger percentage of old people. Senior citizens will vote in the same pattern as the rest of the population if they are informed. Presents ways schools can communicate better and gain the suppport of senior citizens. (MD)

Suggestions for making the local taxpayer aware of the value of instructional technology in the hope that he will, with his vote, support the cost of this vital equipment. (LS)

Reviews, within the context of the one man, one vote principle, the recent Supreme Court decisions that bear on school district elections in three areas: (a) representative elections for governing boards, (b) selective voter qualifications for participation in school district elections, and (c) super majority vote requirements on school finance…

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

Adapted from the author's remarks at the 1969 convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City.

Describes school financial election campaign strategy using a random survey of registered voters, concentric targeting of likely "yes" voters, and an integrated database. (PKP)

This article deals with a typical school system's dilemma of dealing with the problems of presenting the proposed budget to the voters who decide what monies should be spent on education." (Editor)

Describes how one district mounted a successful campaign to get its budget passed after the same budget was defeated three months earlier. (IRT)

Superintendent of Antigo Unified School District, Antigo, Wisconsin, explains the use of school-level and community-level data to build support for bond and budget referenda. Describes the benefits of data-driven decision-making. (PKP)

This document describes the public relations strategies employed by the Lakewood (Ohio) City School district to obtain voter support for a school levy. Various aspects of this successful campaign are described, including the formation of administrative committees to oversee campaign activities, steering and citizens' committees, the use of…

Specific factors that characterized successful 1976 election campaigns in Michigan school districts. (MLF)