This report presents the results of a research effort that investigated the educational, social, and financial implications of declining school enrollments. Although the study focused on the Canadian province of Ontario, most of the report will be useful to school officials in other areas as well. Chapter 1 presents the background for the study by…

Using statistical data, this paper analyzes methods for educational finance in Ontario that provide alternatives to present fiscal inequalities. There are currently five barriers to equity: the lack of directly comparable measures of local tax-paying ability, the extremes in unit equalized assessment caused by the large number of school…

This report covers four major aspects of the declining enrollment problem in Ontario, Canada, schools. Chapter 1 reviews the literature on the advantages and disadvantages of small high schools, including suggestions for operating small secondary schools effectively. Chapter 2 contains the results of an opinion survey of teachers, principals, and…

Reports on current research on the educational, social, and financial implications of declining enrollment in Ontario are summarized in part 1 of this paper and accompanied by the author's comments and conclusions. The abstracts cover such topics as school closure, the adequacy of small secondary schools, minimum acceptable size of elementary…