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Jimerson, Lorna – Rural School and Community Trust, 2007
Over the past several decades West Virginia has closed scores of small, locally-based schools (primarily high schools), as part of district-level consolidation. These consolidations have affected families and students in numerous ways. Most notably, students living in outlying towns are now required to travel much longer distances to reach…
Descriptors: School Buses, High Schools, Rural Schools, Extracurricular Activities
Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
"Consolidation of schools" is the term used when two or more school districts are made into a single district, one school in one building replacing two or more small schools in several buildings. In some States when but two schools are replaced by one, the new school is called a "union" school, the term "consolidated"…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Rural Schools, Small Schools, Consolidated Schools