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The "AS&U" 100
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Kennedy, Mike – American School & University, 2008
The downward enrollment trend shown in this year's "AS&U" 100--a compilation of the nation's 100 largest school districts--is unmistakable. Added together, the 100 largest districts had 10,708,137 students in 2006-2007, compared with 10,763,959 in 2005-2006. Even districts that showed steady growth throughout the 1990s and the early…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Public Schools, School Districts, Enrollment Trends
Funding Issues in U.S. Community Colleges: Findings From a 2007 Survey of the National State Directors of Community Colleges
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Katsinas, Stephen G.; Tollefson, Terrence A.; Reamey, Becky A. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2008
Changing state revenues have prompted heightened concern about the immediate short- and long-term future and stability of state investments in higher education. The 2007 Survey of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges (NCSDCC) is the third administration of questions to determine questions of access, funding and overall…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Higher Education, Financial Problems, School Maintenance
On the Interface of Probabilistic and PDE Methods in a Multifactor Term Structure Theory
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Mamon, Rogemar S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2004
Within the general framework of a multifactor term structure model, the fundamental partial differential equation (PDE) satisfied by a default-free zero-coupon bond price is derived via a martingale-oriented approach. Using this PDE, a result characterizing a model belonging to an exponential affine class is established using only a system of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Bond Issues, Computation
Changing Composition of Michigan Households. Policy Report 10
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Menchik, Bettie Landauer – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2002
This report on Michigan's demographics examines the changing composition of Michigan's households and the ramification for Michigan schools. The report states that between 1980 and 2000, Michigan's population grew by 7.3 percent, while the number of households grew by 590,448, or 18 percent. Households are growing faster than the population…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Population Trends, Marital Status, School Districts
Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority: 1999 Annual Report.
Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority, Saint Paul. – 1999
This annual report reviews fiscal year 1999 for institutions serviced by the Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority. The report notes a slight decline in new financing activity, although the $87.7 million financed during the 1999 fiscal year was the second highest annual total for the Authority. Following some introductory material, the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Annual Reports, Bond Issues, Building Conversion
Local School Construction Programs. Bulletin, 1957, No. 20
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Viles, N. E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
This bulletin is designed as an outline to direct the attention of local officials to various features and steps meriting attention in planning and carrying out a school-plant construction program. Planning, administration, and construction practices and procedures may vary with buildings of different sizes or types of construction or with those…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, School Buildings, School Construction