A state panel then ran the district until new elections were held a few months later.
A report last year by a state panel found that the national average cost for new school construction was $146 a square foot.
But the bill falls well short of the sweeping reforms proposed by a state panel earlier this year.
In 1986, the last year for which statistics are available, the state panels received 10,357 complaints.
Nonetheless, the police union is counting on the state panel to win better contracts.
The answers are, as recent hearings before a state panel demonstrated, not so simple.
It will be the first time a state panel has sat in judgment on a city police contract.
But the state panel's relationship with the current Roosevelt school board is mainly advisory.
A state panel formed as a result of the takeover found no evidence to support those allegations.
He is expected to appeal the decision before a state panel Feb. 13.