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Download full textTheodore Kaniuka – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2023
When unified status was granted to numerous school districts, school boards developed redistricting plans to implement neighborhood schools. Social justice advocates decried these plans as they reversed over 40 years of progress, as many of these efforts resulted in resegregating schools homogenously grouped by race and wealth. Using piecewise and…
Descriptors: School Districts, School District Reorganization, School Resegregation, Racial Segregation
Direct linkYifan Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation includes three essays on school choice. In Chapter 1 we consider the priority-based affirmative action policy in school choice. We weaken the responsiveness to affirmative action policy by requiring at least one minority student to be weakly better off when their priorities are improved. We find that under both the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Affirmative Action, Minority Group Students, Magnet Schools
Odessa Yanisha Mann – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored the impact of rural school district consolidation in eastern North Carolina. Wilkins County is a low-income, low-performing county with an average daily membership (ADM) of 1,501 students. This county suffers from rural population decline, decreasing ADM, and is categorized as low performing, with only two of the six schools…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Consolidated Schools, School Districts, Outcomes of Education
Odessa Yanisha Mann; Daniel Novey; Travis Lewis – Education Leadership Review, 2021
This study explored the impact of rural school district consolidation in eastern North Carolina. Wilkins County is a low-income, low-performing county with an average daily membership (ADM) of 1,501 students. This case study reviews the process of consolidation one year after the 2017-2018 consolidation in terms of academic, financial, and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Consolidated Schools, School Districts, Outcomes of Education
Richards, Meredith P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
"Gerrymandering" is known best as a tool to manipulate boundaries for voting districts, but school districts have long used the same tool to manipulate school boundaries. The author used geospatial techniques--mapping various kinds of demographic data onto school boundaries--to examine public school attendance zones and their effect on…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Racial Segregation, School Districts, Geographic Location
LoFrese, Christopher Todd – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This case study explored the socioeconomic integration outcomes of a central North Carolina Public School District's recent elementary level redistricting process. The district's student assignment policy seeks to balance schools in part by the socioeconomic status of students. Previous redistricting efforts used free and reduced price lunch…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Public Schools, School District Reorganization, Elementary Schools
Johnston, William J.; Pyecha, John N. – 1986
This paper outlines an attempt to include analysis of political, economic, and social considerations within a study of the feasibility of a school district merger in Guilford County, North Carolina. The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which discusses major conditions in each of three school districts in the county. Two of these…
Descriptors: Centralization, County School Districts, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Belk, James S.; And Others – 1995
An analysis and evaluation by the State of North Carolina on its effective use of technology revealed that the state was highly fragmented in the use of and access to technology; the result of this evaluation was the vision of a state-wide network that would link 3,400 sites on a state-of-the-art telecommunications system. Southern Bell created a…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Construction Programs
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of School Planning. – 1976
The first portion of this document consists of maps and graphs that display important information on population, income, resources, and education in North Carolina. They have been constructed to illustrate the present situation from county to county and from school administrative unit to school administrative unit across the state. The second half…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attendance Patterns, Demography, Educational Finance
Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. – 1974
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1972 on a case involving changes in boundaries of a county school district in Virginia which had been operated as a dual school system. Two weeks after a federal district Court ordered a school-pairing plan, the Emporia City Council announced that city's intention to operate an independent school system. The…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Regional Curriculum Project, Atlanta, GA. – 1968
One of 6 state reports prepared in cooperation with the Regional Curriculum Project, the document discusses 4 major educational programs conducted in North Carolina since 1965. "The Story of Merger and Educational Change in Moore County" is a report relating to school redistricting; "The Mathematics Project in Greensboro"…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Federal Programs
Sher, Jonathan P.; Schaller, Karin – 1986
At the request of the North Carolina School Boards Association, a nationally recognized expert on school and school district consolidation evaluated the 1986 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) plan for school district consolidation from the perspective of economic, educational, and social/political considerations, including the…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of School Planning. – 1988
The North Carolina Division of School Planning conducted an educational survey of Cleveland County Schools. An architect and an engineer evaluated and rated each facility and site. The report of findings recommends reorganizing the merged school system into a K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 configuration, to improve instructional offerings for particular…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness, Declining Enrollment, Educational Facilities Improvement
DRABICK, LAWRENCE W. – 1964
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS SURVEY WAS TO IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS TYPICAL OF VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHERS IN THE STATE. THE 25-PERCENT SAMPLE RESULTED IN USABLE QUESTIONNAIRE RETURNS FROM 97 WHITE AND 29 NEGRO TEACHERS. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED ABOUT THE SCHOOL IN WHICH THE TEACHER WORKED, THE BACKGROUND AND PREPARATION OF THE TEACHER,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Black Teachers, Educational Facilities, Employment Patterns
