Sentences with phrase «school consolidation»

The resulting efficiency of school consolidation is, however, often determined to be the best option for providing a quality education to community members.

Meanwhile, the tide of public opinion on school consolidation may be turning.

I believe that we are experiencing the tip of the iceberg in school consolidation, but we are in a slow - moving ship and this year we will only see a slightly less small number of mergers and school closures.

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

Hartford's Equity 2020 committee, the advisory panel that city school leaders formed months ago to consider school consolidation, got its first glimpse of what the district's consultants have been working on in recent weeks — three possible scenarios to help shrink the school system starting in the 2017 - 18 school year.

Lawyers representing students and families from the now - defunct Lake View school district in Arkansas filed a lawsuit in federal court Oct. 25 challenging a new state school consolidation law on the grounds that it violates the district's equal - protection rights and is racially discriminatory, according to the Associated Press.

Jeremy is a former high school social studies teacher whose interests include school consolidation, school district funding and equity, and technology in education.

But, in 1972, after evaluating the data, she published a critical paper, Economy, Efficiency, Equality: The Myths of Rural School Consolidation (later expanded into a book cowritten with colleagues).

A proposed merger plan by the citizen group Consensus intentionally avoids school consolidation, something many have cited as a deal - breaker for any government merger.

Consensus members have called for a new commission to look at school consolidation.

Walsh had already answered a question from another person about why the schools weren't included, saying he didn't think they could get school consolidation done.

Stallings, 44, a tax professional seeking his second term on the board, said part of dealing with Hartford's systemic problems is «right - sizing» the district through school consolidation.

But this fall, the stakes are even higher as Hartford moves toward school consolidation.

Whoever wins will quickly become immersed in budget crises and the debate over school consolidation as the district looks to downsize.

Those are the three myths that undergird school consolidation.

Running a school corporation is expensive — that's why Governor Mitch Daniels has touted school consolidation as a way for small, rural districts to save money during tough economic times.

Just as school consolidation makes integrated schools possible, school secession has proven to be a tool to keep the education of black and white and rich and poor children separate — most recently in Jefferson County, Alabama, and in Shelby County, Tennessee.

However, research suggests that significant financial benefits are not guaranteed by theses school consolidations.

Hartford's Equity 2020 committee, the advisory panel that city school leaders formed months ago to consider school consolidation, got its...

His Commission on Local Government Reform issued the Kernan - Shepard report, which advocated the streamlining of local government, including school consolidation.

The fragmentation of districts and declining populations has led to a wave of school consolidations in rural America.

But the chairman of the Hartford Board of Education says the group's concerns are premature and that school officials are far from a decision on school consolidation.

County Executive Poloncarz explains his school consolidation initiative following his state of the county (WBEN Photo / Mike Baggerman)

A study by Chris Berry that was published in Education Next looked at the impact of the school consolidation movement, which swept through the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.

Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System

Excerpt: «In an era of school consolidation, many children travel further from their local communities to attend school.

In education, shifts — school consolidations, new instructional models and evaluations, fluctuating student needs — are the norm.

-- Key Challenge: Facing a three - school consolidation.

School consolidation, where small schools in local communities are merged into a single large school for a large surrounding area, has been happening since the 1940s.

When the Maine legislature passed a school consolidation law in 2007, it required 200 local school districts throughout the state to merge into 75 larger districts.

Hartford's Equity 2020 committee, the advisory panel that city school leaders formed months ago to consider school consolidation, got its first glimpse of what the district's consultants have been working on in recent weeks — three possible scenarios to help shrink the school system starting in the 2017 - 18 school year.