Author: Jeffrey Michael VincentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Planning and Siting New Public Schools in the Context of Community Development
Author: Jeffrey Michael VincentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Location of Public Schools
Author: Jason GarnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : School sites
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Public schools are some of our communities' most important and costly infrastructures assets. School location affects transportation choices, property values, and student health and achievement, and is implicated in increasing urban sprawl and economic and racial geographic inequality. Yet, school districts operate independent of the municipalities in which they serve, limiting interaction and coordination in planning and siting school facilities. Schools, consequently, are generally overlooked in planning research and practice. This leads to the question: How are public school siting decisions made? And, how do they overlap with planning goals? To answer this question, semi-structured interviews were conducted with officials from fifteen school districts in the Puget Sound region, providing open-ended narratives for a qualitative analysis exploring this poorly understood topic. Despite the regional context of state-required coordinated planning for capital facilities, the narratives reveal that land availability and cost, coupled with perceived site acreage and community facilities needs, are the primary factors influencing school location. School siting is largely a technical process undertaken by consultants and facilities experts. Further, school districts' reliance on voter-approved bond financing inhibits long-term planning and prevents prioritization of broader location criteria. Competing for land in a competitive market, school districts are challenged to sell the higher cost of prime, centrally-locates sites to their voters, pushing schools to less desirable areas. In light of the constraints faced by school districts, local and regional planning goals are more likely to be achieved when schools are systematically included in land use planning processes. The lesson learned from case examples is that locating schools to best meet community needs depends on stakeholder engagement and cooperative interaction between school districts and municipalities. The data reveals that coordination and interaction between districts, municipalities, and citizens increases when school districts face pressure induced by enrollment growth and limited availability of land. Sub-area Master plans and economic development plans also present special opportunities to forge lasting partnerships. Ultimately, as costly and critical infrastructure, school sites should be chosen to according to a variety of criteria, using the same processes that guide development of other facilities and services deemed necessary for maintaining and improving the sustainability, economic vitality, and quality of life in our communities.
Segregation
Author: James H. CarrPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415965349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Segregation: The Rising Costs for America documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation between minority and non-minority households. The book also demonstrates how problems facing minority communities are increasingly important to the nation's long-term economic vitality and global competitiveness as a whole. Solutions to the challenges facing the nation in creating a more equitable society are not beyond our ability to design or implement, and it is in the interest of all Americans to support programs aimed at creating a more just society. The book is uniquely valuable to students in the social sciences and public policy, as well as to policy makers, and city planners.
Negotiating Place
Author: Richard L. MilkUsing Public Schools as Community-development Tools
Author: Connie ChungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. EpsteinPublisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1483320014
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Building Partnerships
Author: Antonio Francisco GonzálezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Planning, Current Literature
Author: Research in Education
Author: What are Our School Building Needs?
Author: National Citizens Commission for the Public SchoolsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New schools
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description