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Association of School Business Officials, Chicago, IL. – 1979
Cooperative purchasing programs among school districts have grown rapidly in the past decade, but significant questions remain about the benefits and drawbacks of such programs. This document presents the results of a project sponsored by the Association of School Business Officials for the purpose of addressing these questions. Comprising…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textNachtigal, Paul; Parker, Sylvia D. – 1990
With declining enrollments and budget limitations, it becomes more and more difficult for small rural schools to offer state-approved programs (often based on the "bigger is better" model of education). For many already consolidated districts, further consolidation is not a viable solution to the problem. Cooperative arrangements are…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Grzymkowski, Virginia J.; Kelley, Howard F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Four small Connecticut school systems demographically different but similar in size have established a consortium to minimize the effects of declining enrollment by sharing their students, teachers, and resources. Despite such obstacles as scheduling and transportation costs, the consortium has generally proven successful. (JBM)
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Peer reviewedRuckman, Debra R.; Feldhusen, John F. – Roeper Review, 1988
Evaluation results are reported for a gifted education consortium, involving seven rural school districts and Purdue University's Gifted Education Resource Institute. Positive change occurred in teachers and other school personnel in knowledge level and attitudes toward gifted education. High satisfaction with goal achievement was indicated by…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation
Smith, Albert; And Others – 1976
A narrative and documented review of the initial stages of organizing a consortium for inservice teacher education is presented. Functioning as a Teacher Corps project, a model is being developed for collaborative decision-making among teacher associations, local school districts, and institutions of higher education. Under consideration is a…
Descriptors: Certification, Colleges, Conceptual Schemes, Consortia
Nachtigal, Paul – 1985
Ten rural school improvement clusters involving 63 districts, 7 colleges and universities, and 6 state departments of education have been developed in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and North Dakota through the work of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Rural Education Project. Four essential steps appear necessary for…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, College School Cooperation, Consortia, Cooperative Planning
Armstrong, John A. – 1976
The Oregon Consortium for Incremental Development of Exemplary Career Education Programs had three major thrusts: (1) plans were made to upgrade levels of career education (K-12) based on 14 specified assessment categories; (2) each of the five participating consortium districts focused its efforts on one specific program category (the program…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Consortia, Cooperative Planning
Rabe, Bonnie – 1980
This paper reports on a collaborative approach that was developed in 1978 in response to teacher dissatisfaction with staff development efforts. INSERV (Central Arizona Inservice Consortium) was formed, composed of the Arizona Educational Association, nine school districts, the state department of education, and the College of Education at Arizona…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Delivery Systems, Educational Administration
Angelis, Jane, Ed. – 1983
These proceedings consist of papers presented at a conference devoted to educational resource sharing. Included in the volume are the following papers: "Educational Resource Sharing: The Challenge for Illinois" by Lewis D. Patterson; "Resource Sharing: The Test Is Yet to Come," by John W. Huther; "A Response to the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Planning
Leto, Lyn – 1997
In 1996, individuals associated with the Lifelong Learning Center in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, proposed the formation of a three-district literacy consortium in a tricounty rural area that would cooperatively offer adults residing in the districts the option of earning a standard high school diploma in lieu of a General Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
California State Council on Vocational Education, Sacramento. – 1993
Coordination of job training delivery strategies by vocational education (VE) agencies and private industry councils/service delivery areas (PICs/SDAs) throughout California in 1993 was reviewed. Among the review's main findings were the following: more than 9 of 10 SDAs have VE representatives on PICs; community colleges are the VE…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Consortia
Silverberg, Marsha K.; Hershey, Alan M. – 1995
The emergence of tech-prep at the state and local levels was examined in a study of the first surveys of state and local coordinators: a survey of all 812 tech-prep consortia receiving Title IIIE funds for school year 1992-93 (response rate 86%) and a state survey of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands (to…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Coordinators
Pioneer Cooperative Educational Service Agency, Cleveland, GA. – 1977
The Pioneer Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) first-year (1976-77) activities were reviewed. The project was intended to implement the Far West Laboratory (FWL) version of experience based career education (EBCE) in three Hall County, Georgia, high schools, and to prepare for second-year (school year) implementation of the program in…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
