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Peer reviewedFowler, Frances C. – Educational Policy, 1996
In 1993-94, Ohio implemented an interdistrict open-enrollment policy, allowing student transfers only to adjacent districts. Districts can be open or closed, but cannot prevent transfers. A 1994 survey found that open districts were small, rural, racially homogeneous districts with declining enrollment. Closed districts were suburban, with…
Descriptors: Crowding, Educational Supply, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System
Direct linkGeorge, Paul S. – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
In the last five years, a growing number of large, urban school districts have moved to close what are termed "troubled" 6-8 middle schools and have opened K-8 schools in their place: Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Newark, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, and Philadelphia have been among the first to do…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Adolescents, Urban Schools, School Districts
