Advises administrators about how to invest school money in accounts that draw the maximum amount of interest. (WD)

A seven-year-old partnership between a school district and a Fortune 500 company has provided financial assistance to the district, expanded student interest in science, and encouraged teacher development in science. (MLF)

Increasingly, school fund-raising campaigns are prompting concerns among administrators and others about safety, equity, and propriety. Examples from different schools illustrate the advantages and disadvantages. Lists guidelines for choosing a fund-raising firm. (MLF)

Details procedures involved in setting up the Shaker Schools Foundation, a nonprofit organization serving the Shaker Heights Public Schools, Ohio. The author's seven guidelines on how money for such a foundation should be collected, administered, and distributed include encouraging unrestricted donations but making provisions for donations…

Outlines the legal status of nonprofit foundations as fund-raising entities for public schools (including information on tax deductions), offers four steps for planning such foundations, presents possible objections to foundation funding, and gives the addresses of three organizations to write for further information. (JBM)