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Burlingame, Martin – 1978
Based on case studies of the impact of declining enrollments during the 1976-77 school year in each of 9 rural Illinois school districts, this paper addresses the following: enrollment decline in smaller cities across the nation, with particular emphasis on Illinois; demographic characteristics of the east central region of Illinois, with…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Consolidated Schools
Peer reviewedBurlingame, Martin – Education and Urban Society, 1979
This paper discusses the difficulties that rural and small urban communities are facing in resisting attempts to consolidate their schools into larger districts. (BE)
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Declining Enrollment, Economic Factors, Educational Policy
