Discusses strategies intended to balance the effects of underenrollment in day care centers. Strategies for staff, advertising, and promotion are detailed. (RJC)

When trying to cope with declining school enrollments, Great Britain's local education agencies frequently encounter problems in achieving the proper balance between good management and adequate consultation. This article examines the problems that Braeside LEA, a northern metropolitan county, faced when consulting interest groups about secondary…

Discusses the federated school district, a cooperative organizational alternative for low enrollment rural districts facing enrollment decline or fiscal exigency. Describes district characteristics: local elementary schools, small regional high schools, a governing assembly, and a multiple district administrative system. Includes a planning model…

Develops a model linking organizational growth and decline to competitive strategy, the strategy-making process, and the chief executive officer's personal characteristics. The model was empirically tested for private liberal arts colleges. Enrollment growth is associated with focused strategy, the CEO's innovative style, differentiation, and…

This article recounts the legal battles that ensued when the Saskatchewan (Canada) Minister of Education closed a special school for the deaf. The case, "Trofimenkoff versus Saskatchewan," is analyzed in terms of the plaintiffs' case against closure and decisions against the plaintiffs by the Minister, the Court of the Queen's Bench, and…

Discusses the difficulties of attracting and maintaining skilled personnel in the environmental laboratory industry. Describes major factors contributing to the current situation and industry efforts to remedy the problems. (MCO)

A study of 25 South Dakota school districts found that combining the superintendency with either the elementary or the secondary principalship was not an ideal arrangement. For the district and teachers, the most consistent disadvantages relate to inadequate instructional leadership. For the superintendents, the greatest disadvantage is sacrifice…

Present trends indicate a systematic decline in business education enrollments. The status and definition of the field are being debated, and the need to keep up with constant technological change compounds the issue. The field must move beyond a technical skills orientation to produce lifelong learners able to adapt to change. (SK)

The three parts of this paper present a review of how the states provide state aid formula adjustments for enrollment decline, findings of a survey of New Mexico superintendents regarding revision of the state's formula, and the implications of formula revision for the goals of school finance reform. First, it is noted that there is a trend toward…

A study was conducted to determine the causes contributing to the decline in occupational education enrollments and course offerings in Washoe County, Clark County, and Carson City School Districts in Nevada. Mailed or personally administered surveys were given to a sample of 1,454 high-school students from the school districts. Responses were…

Although Liverpool (England) has experienced a declining school population since 1961, it has not experienced declining educational costs. This is partly because reorganization of grade divisions, school construction as part of unemployment relief, and expansion of prenursery schools all created additional schools. Also, many problems are…

Analyzed is the development of marketing strategies at two major universities that have been successful in reversing enrollment declines that they experienced in the early 1970's. First, the organizational context of recruiting and admissions is examined, and the major phases of the admissions calendar are reviewed. Then the application of…

This study attempts to project school enrollment, by school building, through the 1980-81 school year for the Des Moines Independent Community School District. The study uses the cohort-survival method for estimating future enrollment based on the live births in the city since 1963 and school district enrollment since 1970. For purposes of…

A survey by the Los Angeles Times indicated that only 18% of the 64% of the Californians who voted for Proposition 13 did so with the hope that expenditures for education would be reduced. However, because financial support for both kindergarten through twelfth grades and community colleges have come largely from local sources, these two segments…

Enrollment decline places new pressures on school administrators and school boards, but Ontario's Commission on Declining Enrollments found no call for a complete reorganization of either the provincial governance system or the structure of the delivery system at the administrative level. This document describes those aspects of Ontario's school…