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Houston Independent School District, 2015
No other city in the nation more clearly exemplifies the dramatically changing social, political, and economic landscape of America's urban centers than Houston. Houston has transformed from a bi-racial southern city on the bayou to one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the nation. Houston Independent School District…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Educational Quality, Global Education
Baldassare, Mark; Bonner, Dean; Petek, Sonja; Shrestha, Jui – Public Policy Institute of California, 2012
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Statewide Survey provides policymakers, the media, and the public with objective, advocacy-free information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents. Inaugurated in April 1998, this is the 125th PPIC Statewide Survey in a series that has generated a…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Adults, Public Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Kennedy, Mike – American School & University, 2008
The downward enrollment trend shown in this year's "AS&U" 100--a compilation of the nation's 100 largest school districts--is unmistakable. Added together, the 100 largest districts had 10,708,137 students in 2006-2007, compared with 10,763,959 in 2005-2006. Even districts that showed steady growth throughout the 1990s and the early…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Public Schools, School Districts, Enrollment Trends
Filardo, Mary; O'Donnell, Sean – 21st Century School Fund, 2010
Methodology: There is no national source of data or information on the federal role in funding and oversight for public PK-12 school facilities. To address this shortcoming, 21st Century School Fund has prepared this study with the support of the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities. In collecting data and information for this report,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Clearinghouses, Educational Facilities, State Agencies
Menchik, Bettie Landauer – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2002
This report on Michigan's demographics examines the changing composition of Michigan's households and the ramification for Michigan schools. The report states that between 1980 and 2000, Michigan's population grew by 7.3 percent, while the number of households grew by 590,448, or 18 percent. Households are growing faster than the population…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Population Trends, Marital Status, School Districts
Viles, N. E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
This bulletin is designed as an outline to direct the attention of local officials to various features and steps meriting attention in planning and carrying out a school-plant construction program. Planning, administration, and construction practices and procedures may vary with buildings of different sizes or types of construction or with those…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, School Buildings, School Construction