This guide provides assistance to the lawyer who has volunteered to help a law-related education project by soliciting supplementary funds from local business, civic, or other sources. Specifically, the guide offers guidance in identifying and approaching potential donors, preparing the request for funds, and organizing supporting data and…

A DeKalb, Illinois, school district involved students and community members in passing a bond tax rate and in school planning. An old hospital converted into an administrative center produces rental income. (MLF)

IT IS SUGGESTED THAT PHILADELPHIA HAS NOW ENTERED THE SECOND PHASE OF THE INTEGRATION MOVEMENT. NOW THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD AND A RESPONSIBLE SEGMENT OF THE COMMUNITY ARE FOR INTEGRATION, THE ACT OF INTEGRATION IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN PHILADELPHIA IS OUTLINED. ONE PART OF THE MOVEMENT DEALT WITH…

The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library have compiled detailed information about its benefit book sales and presents it here as a guide for those who wish to organize sales in their own communities. The committees needed to operate the sale are listed, and the duties of the chairmen are described. Suggestions are given for collecting…

This pamphlet seeks to answer most of the questions and correct some of the mistakes the author encountered during a first-hand study of conditions in over 100 small museums. The pamphlet is a short presentation of the fundamental elements of good museum management, with clarifying comments for those least familiar with museum work. The main…

The year-round school operation of the Valley View School District is described from its planning stages through the implementation of the plans. A "45-15 Plan" provides for each pupil forty-five days of instruction and fifteen equivalent days of vacation. With the cycle repeated four times each year, one-fourth of the pupils are on…

Because the year-round school, if adopted, produces change in the way of the lives of students, their parents, school staff, and possibly much of the community, an information dissemination program about the year-round school must be broader, more inclusive, and better planned and executed than any other innovative program in a school district.…

This booklet deals with ideas, plans, and activities that have worked to gain election successes; and it discusses the pitfalls and problems that have produced election failures. The report tells how to organize people and jobs, and provides a timetable for actions during the last 12 weeks of a campaign. The authors suggest that most successful…

Conflict is becoming an everyday, rather than an occasional, event in the life of a school district. Competing for a school district's public relations department time and resources are the public demands for accountability and curriculum revision and their obdurate stands against tax increases and desegregation. Under these conditions, it would…

A veteran public relations ractitioner suggests five cost-saving communication ideas. (Available from Educational Communication Center, P.O. Box 657, Camp Hill, PA 17011; $12.00 annually.) (Author)

The article give information and instructions for student volunteers in preparing access guides for handicapped persons to community and campus buildings and facilities. Includes and architectural barriers survey form, suggestions for planning community surveys and support, and sources for additional information and standards. (MF)

The Cincinnati Center for Law-Related Education, working within a single county in the state of Ohio, offers a comprehensive approach to law-related education which includes teacher education, curriculum development, and various support services. (MJB)

Maintains that teachers in kindergarten through twelfth grade are interested in improving their teaching of geography. Reviews the instructional improvement efforts of various state, regional, and national alliances, noting the high levels of community support and professional involvement by teachers at all levels. (JDH)