Decision making process and declining enrollments in northern New England

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dc.contributor.advisorFenton, Marilyn
dc.contributor.authorSt. Cyr, Robert M.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRogers, Audrey
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRichardson, Irving
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-01T15:41:00Z
dc.date.available2017-05-01T15:41:00Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis research was conducted as a qualitative comparative case study of two Northern New England school districts that were in the process of responding to declining enrollments. The purpose of the study was to explore decision-making through the lens of declining enrollments. An award winning rural school in an affluent town with high performing students and high tax rates was compared to a focus school in a rural economically depressed area with comparable tax rates. The NWREL Framework (1975) was used as a theoretical lens for examining the decision making process. This framework includes the following components: (1) participatory decision-making, (2) choice, (3) process, and (4) comprehensiveness. Results indicated that a decision making process was followed to address declining enrollments in one of the districts, while the other district’s response was reactive. Both schools reported negative impacts of program reductions on school staff and climate; however, participants agreed that at the time of the interviews, the impact on the community and students was not noticeable. Results indicated that declining enrollment became a problem in both school districts when student enrollment dropped to a level that required budgetary responses in the form of reducing positions, programs and the high-end tax base. This study, though small in scale, will be useful for larger studies that might explore the phenomenon of declining enrollments. (Author abstract)en_US
dc.description.bibliographicCitationSt. Cyr, R. M. (2017). Decision making process and declining enrollments in northern New England. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduen_US
dc.description.programEducational Leadershipen_US
dc.description.schoolSchool of Educationen_US
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dc.format.mediaTypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/3132
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouthern New Hampshire Universityen_US
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dc.rightsAuthor retains all ownership rights. Further reproduction in violation of copyright is prohibiteden_US
dc.rightsHolderSt. Cyr, Robert M.
dc.subject.lcshSouthern New Hampshire University -- Theses (Education)en_US
dc.subject.othereducational leadershipen_US
dc.subject.othereducational administrationen_US
dc.subject.othereducationen_US
dc.subject.otherchoiceen_US
dc.subject.othercomprehensivenessen_US
dc.subject.otherpopulationen_US
dc.subject.otherprocessen_US
dc.subject.otherruralen_US
dc.subject.othersmaller schoolsen_US
dc.titleDecision making process and declining enrollments in northern New Englanden_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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