This article provides a list of publications evaluated as finalists in the annual School Publications Awards Competition sponsored jointly by School Management and the National School Public Relations Association. Awards for excellence or honorable mention in six categories are noted along with critical comments and recommendations of contest…

Summarizes briefly the low achievement rate of Puerto Ricans in New York schools, including the background of the problem, the school situation, and the community involvement. (JF)

Fifteen pilot districts in California are using a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS) to bring the logic of systems analysis to their educational procedures. (Author)

Delivered at 80th annual meeting of Association of American Medical Colleges, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 31, 1969. (IR)

Survey of efforts made in Philadelphia to meet the pressing needs of children in an urban environment. (KJ)

Parks and recreation agencies must adapt to decreased federal funding by improving efficiency, developing new sources of income, building public support, and making cuts if necessary. All staff members should be part of the decison making process. (JMK)

Research was conducted to test whether a community-based approach to citizenship education could raise college student perceptions of their stake and efficacy in world affairs. The community-based approach was clearly associated with an increased perception of the importance of local and nongovernmental decision makers in world affairs. (BW)

A case study of the Flood Recovery Task Force (FRTF) in northeastern Pennsylvania reinforces the importance of preexisting, integrative structures to group mobilization and documents the routine political nature of FRTF activity. The study also establishes the role of well-organized status and economic influentials in disaster recovery. (Author/KC)

Drawing on hypotheses inferred from survey findings concerning principals' attitudes toward community involvement in the schools, the author suggests using principals' support of teacher autonomy and principals' encouragement of community involvement as the two dimensions of a model of school-community relations. (PGD)

Suggests five things to do and five not to do when closing schools, including encouraging community involvement, hiring professional consultants, establishing a citizen task force, creating an administrators' committee, publicizing reports and proposals, not claiming closures will save money, and not becoming overconfident. (RW)

There is a growing movement to demand reparations for Japanese incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II. The movement is progressing at a period when those in power are reacting against programs that support Asian Americans. Americans must not ignore the issue as they did 40 years ago. (Author/MJL)