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Dollars & Sense, Contributing Authors, Steven Bingler, Bobbie Hill
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The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools
By: Steven Bingler; Bobbie Hill; Barbara Kent Lawrence, Ed.D.; Barbara Diamond, J.D; Jerry Hoffman; Craig B. Howley, Ed.D.; Stacy Mitchell, David Rudolph, Ed.D.; & Elliot Washor
Published in 2002 and updated in 2005 (link to Dollars & Sense II http://www.goodsmallschools.org/ ) this publication, co-sponsored by Concordia and published by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, summarizes current research on the cost effectiveness of small schools. Below is an excerpt from the Introduction:
"Dollars & Sense is an introduction to issues relating to school facilities that face school board members, parents, teachers, students, school administrators, policy-makers, community members, and taxpayers. Experience and research indicate that good small schools serve students, and those who care about them, better than large schools. Many decision-makers, however, are reluctant to embrace small schools for fear that they are not economical and place an unnecessarily heavy burden on taxpayers. This report will show that there are many economic arguments in support of small schools, and that it is fiscally responsible to spend school construction dollars on small school facilities...."
Full report can be downloaded here: http://www.concordia.com/home/downloads/#