State Reports

Items listed under "State Documents" have been received by the Documents Unit, Illinois State Library, Springfield, and are usually available from public libraries in the state through inter library loan. Issuing agencies may have copies available. For items listed under "Other Reports," write to publisher as noted.

State Documents

• The Residential Energy Assistance Partnership Program: 1989-1990 Program Winter Evaluation, Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Office of Research and Planning, 325 W. Adams, Room 300, Springfield 62704 (March 1991), 87pp.

Illinois' Residential Energy Assistance Partnership Program (REAPP), among the most innovative in the nation, was designed to ensure affordable home energy services to low-income families. It provided winter bill copayment and grant plans, emergency services and a weatherization program. In addition to describing these aspects, this report discusses winter energy consumption costs in both unassisted and REAPP-assisted households and the characteristics of REAPP participants. State lawmakers eliminated the program in July.

• AIDS and the Law: What You Should Know, Legislative Research Unit, 222 S. College, Springfield 62704 (July 1991), 11pp.

This pamphlet contains very basic, but useful information about AIDS. The first half covers such topics as the prevalence and causes of AIDS, how it is transmitted, the connection between HIV infection and AIDS, and the benefits and limits of HIV blood tests. The other half lists and briefly describes all of the Illinois laws that deal with the disease.

Other Reports

• Effective Schools Through Effective Managment by Fredric H. Genck and Allen J. Klingenberg for the Illinois Association of School Boards, 1209 S. Fifth, Springfield 62703 (July 1991), 236pp.; $11.

Like the first edition, which appeared in 1978, this volume is important reading for all those involved in our local public schools, especially school board members, superintendents and teachers. The authors suggest that good school management requires that school boards enunciate clearly their district's educational purposes, delegate authority to administrators and teachers, and then hold them accountable for the results. Districts that have applied the principles discussed in this book have seen marked improvement in every aspect of their program.

Anna J. Merritt

30/January 1992/Illinois Issues