Describes an enrollment-forecasting process in which technical experts and local community stakeholders worked together to produce cost-effective, yet fairly accurate data. The large Oregon district employing the process gained insights to guide its attendance-zone and facilities-planning decisions and to garner community support. (MLH)

This report estimates the number of recent immigrant students that would enroll in Texas public schools as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and recommends educational strategies to address the unique needs of recent immigrants. Research approaches included a review of existing research on immigration trends and…

This document details migrant education program plans for the state of Arizona and local projects for the period from July 1993 to September 1994. An initial section describes a statewide needs assessment and seven resulting objectives concerning overage for grade students, academic achievement, graduation rates, student identification and…

Cracking school statistics records has come to be "old hat" for education, but signs are out that record-breaking years are numbered. (Editor)

With declining enrollments and a tight financial situation, North York borough must now increase its planning. (WM)

Declining enrollments and accelerating construction costs have had an impact on school construction. This is the time for involving people and planners in re-examining goals, deciding how to best use present facilities, and determining what will be needed in the future. (Author/MLF)

High school graduate projections from late 1987 to the year 2004 are made for total public and nonpublic high school graduates for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Patterns in historical data are analyzed at the state level and aggregated to the regional and national level. The projections are based on a cohort survival method, which…

Decreasing income, increasing costs and growing numbers of students all challenge American higher education. But a more fundamental challenge to higher education institutions is the economically and educationally unbalanced world of the future. (Editor/PG)

Author pointed out a few facts describing the financial conditions and problems under which the state's community colleges are operating. (Author/RK)

This paper examines the influence of demographic factors on the contemporary South Australian education system, with emphasis on technical and further education (TAFE). Demography is essentially concerned with the study of changes in human populations, of birth rates and death rates, the timing of child bearing, internal migration and…

Enrollment projections for the state of Connecticut are carried out to the year 2000 in this document. Separate figures are provided for the elementary and secondary levels because their trends will be different in the 1980s. Vocational-technical school enrollment is incorporated into the secondary enrollment figures. The data should be useful to…

Historical data on enrollments in grades one through twelve and high school graduates in the four-county service area of the Gulf Coast Junior College District were collected for 1973 to 1978 and enrollments were projected for the years 1979 to 1989. Once grade and graduation figures were verified for accuracy, a Cohort Survival Method was used to…

LOCAL SPONSORS MUST PREPARE A PLAN FOR A PROPOSED COMMUNITY COLLEGE, INCLUDING SIX MAJOR TOPICS--(1) HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION AND SPONSORSHIP, (2) DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED SERVICE AREA, (3) RESULTS OF A COMMUNITY SURVEY, (4) PHILOSOPHY, OBJECTIVES, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PROPOSED COLLEGE, (5) LEGAL AND FINANCIAL MATTERS, AND (6) SUPPORTING…

Designed to provide assistance in planning short- and long-range solutions to alleviate overcrowding in elementary and middle schools belonging to the Singapore American School, this study gives an overview of the geographic, political, and economic factors affecting enrollment and provides a detailed analysis of the schools' facilities. The…

THE EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED POPULATION (EDP), DEFINED AS THOSE PERSONS 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER WHO HAVE NOT COMPLETED EIGHT YEARS OF FORMAL SCHOOLING, CONTAINED AT LEAST 24 MILLION PEOPLE IN 1960. ALTERNATE PLANS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR A VOLUNTARY ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR THE EDP, USING A TIME SPAN OF 20 YEARS AND A METHOD FOR…