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Download full textHowley, Craig; Johnson, Jerry; Petrie, Jennifer – National Education Policy Center, 2011
Arguments for consolidation, which merges schools or districts and centralizes their management, rest primarily on two presumed benefits: (1) fiscal efficiency and (2) higher educational quality. The extent of consolidation varies across states due to their considerable differences in history, geography, population density, and politics. Because…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Efficiency, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
