High School Restructuring And Improvement Plan For The Boston Public Schools Classic Reprint

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331365044
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Unified Facilities Plan written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Unified Facilities Plan: A Plan for the Renewal of Boston's School Facilities This is a plan for the continued renewal of Boston's public school facilities during the nineteen-eighties. It builds upon the solid accomplishments of the past two decades. Over that period, new elementary and secondary schools have been built in many areas of the city, nine administrative districts have been created to permit decentralized educational programming that is responsive to community concerns; magnet schools and programs have been created that are attractive to a broad cross-section of city residents; and important steps have been taken to desegregate schools in all neighborhoods. The next decade will pose new and quite different challenges: Enrollments will continue to decline at all levels. Most of the reductions at the elementary level will occur in the next five years, with middle and secondary enrollments dropping sharply in the latter half of the decade. A strategy is needed to cope with these declines while insuring that enrollments remain high in schools which are intended to remain open. The location of high quality school facilities does not currently match the location of the highest densities of students enrolled in the public school system. This is partly a result of where new schools were located over the past two decades, but also results from the steep declines in the numbers of students in outlying areas where schools are generally newer. The strategy for closings and new investments needs to balance the locations of high quality facilities with residential locations of students. A substantial number of schools currently are not in compliance with desegregated enrollment targets. Moreover, because of ongoing neighborhood changes, these targets will be unable to be met without a continuing pattern of reassignments. The facilities strategy must take account of patterns of neighborhood change in recommending the future location of educational facilities. Above all else, if schools are to be closed in response to declining enrollments, students and their parents need to know about plans as far as possible in advance. There is some evidence that the uncertainty over school closings is currently deterring efforts to recruit students into the public system. As enrollments decline sharply over the next five years, the problem could become more severe. The facilities plan must minimize the number of schools which have uncertain status in terms of possible future closing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.