Access to educational opportunity in rural communities: alternative patterns of delivering vocational education in sparsely populated areas. Volume 5: Clay-Wayne County Joint Agreement: a decentralized noncenter agreement
Thomas, R.G. et al.
Station Bulletin, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota (AD-SB-2715): 92
1986
Document Number: 422640
A decentralized noncentre agreement pattern of inter-school district cooperation is examined in this last of four case studies on access of rural students to vocational education. The report identifies essential features of this form of cooperation, details factors facilitating/impeding the operation/maintenance of the cooperative arrangement, assesses the programmes compatibility with its three-county southwestern Illinois setting, and recommends modifications for further study and development. It concludes that this type of approach works best where distances between communities are relatively short and schools have high-quality programmes not offered by other districts, and recommends that this concept be explored further.