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Nowakowski, James A. – American School and University, 1980
Declining enrollment is emerging as a positive stimulus in motivating school personnel to discover innovative coping strategies. Two Illinois school districts have developed ways to adjust. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Leaves of Absence
Download full textHickrod, G. Alan; And Others – 1976
At present, there are no viable models of organizations in decline; all sociological and economic theories deal with growing, expanding organizations. However, as the statistical data from Illinois school districts indicate, declining enrollment and reduction in force are pressing problems. This statistical analysis contains data on population,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Ellsworth, David F. – 1977
This study focuses on the benefits of early retirement as a policy to ease the adjustment process as public school districts and state universities encounter the problem of declining enrollments. Early retirement as one means of reduction in force, and as a means of saving money, has been adopted by 36 Illinois school districts. This paper…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
