Spurred by the high turnover of urban school chiefs, school boards are trying to lock in outstanding incumbents by offering "golden handcuff" provisions such as trust funds, extended contracts, and supplemental salary and housing benefits. A sidebar describes a Jackson (Mississippi) superintendent's $100,000 escrow account as a…

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)