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USEFUL LINKS
Other websites bearing on school governance

• Let's appreciate our kids/Debi S. Edmund -- Practical PR.

• Spinning out of control/Peter S. Weber -- On the stump.

• Contracts are cornerstone of successful construction/Brad Colwell -- A former school attorney traces the legal considerations you need to be aware of before you start your school construction project.

• Barbara Wheeler: School boards hold key to education reform/Debi S. Edmund -- Barbara Wheeler, a long-time school board leader in Illinois, is now president of the National School Boards Association.  Here are her ideas about school board leadership.

• Will your schools' computer systems be ready for January 1, 2000?/Del Stover  -- Will January 1, 2000 be doomsday for school system computers? 

• Schools should be safe.  But are they?/Marc Posner -- Far too many injuries occur on school grounds, says the author -- even though there are precautions schools can take to prevent them.

• Issues in education: A roundup of issues of concern to public school leaders -- Brief discussion of danger on the Internet, TIFs and school budgets, computer have-nots, and more.

• Preparing a school district for technological leadership:  The Manteno experience, Part II/Richard Smelter, Dawn Russert, Dale Adams -- How can a school district of 1,540 students afford to become a leader in school technology?  Here is Part II of the story of an Illinois district doing just that.