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Organizational Options for School Districts
The difficult financial environment which governments are facing is promoting a renewed call for mergers and consolidation. It's a complicated situation, however, that requires deliberate and careful consideration of the economic, political, and opportunity issues that are involved. The OCM BOCES, in collaboration with area researchers and consultants, is facilitating thoughtful consideration of the issue and all organizational options.
Background Material
The difficult financial environment which governments are facing is promoting a renewed call for mergers and consolidation. It's a complicated situation, however, that requires deliberate and careful consideration of the economic, political, and opportunity issues that are involved. The OCM BOCES, in collaboration with area researchers and consultants, is facilitating thoughtful consideration of the issue and all organizational options.
Background Material
- School Limits: Probing the Boundaries of Public Education (University of Buffalo Policy Institute Brief, June, 2009)
- History of SED, 1784-1996
- Guide to Organization
- The Benefits and Costs of School District Consolidation: What recent research reveals about potential cost savings (Duncombe & Yinger)
- 1958 Master Plan for School Reorganization part A part B part C part D (document is very large and therefore is broken up into four parts)
- Thinking Beyond Boundaries (prepared for Broome-Tioga BOCES)
- A Guide to the Reorganization of Schools in NYS (from SED) PowerPoint
- School Consolidation, What Do New Yorkers Think? (from Rural Schools)
- Making Sense of School Consolidation (from The New York Times)
- Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs? (from Maxwell)
- Organizational Reform and Educational Excellence: Guidance, Principles and Core Insights from the Literature (Cayuga-Onondaga white paper)
- Consolidation of Schools and Districts: What the Research Says and What It Means (National Education Policy Center, Howley, Johnson & Petrie)
- Is Merger the Answer for Your District? (NYSSBA, Silky)
- Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools (from ERS)
- Agenda
- Meeting participants list
- Framing The Issues (presentation)
- School District Reorganization Research: What Do We Know, Where Are the Research Gaps, and What Should Be the Research Agenda? (presentation)
- Case Studies and Their Implications (presentation)
- Observations on School Reorganization from Center for Governmental Research (presentation)
- Evaluation (electronic survey)
- Rural Schools Association tools
- future item
