Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ582500
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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School/Community Survival: Successful Strategies Used in Rural School District Consolidations.
Chance, Edward; Cummins, Craig
Rural Educator, v20 n2 p1-7 Win 1998
Superintendents of nine Oklahoma school districts that voluntarily consolidated were interviewed to identify successful strategies related to teachers, parents and community, students, support staff, administrators, and board members, and to identify unsuccessful strategies. Assuring that students would benefit, addressing job security, and communicating openly were mentioned most often. Contains 25 references. (TD)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Security, Mergers, Participative Decision Making, Personnel Management, Resistance to Change, Rural Schools, School Community Relationship, School District Reorganization, School Districts, Superintendents
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oklahoma
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