Smaller Schools and Districts

Author: Seth Cox

  • Save Orem Schools

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    Seth Cox

     This website is promoting the consideration of creating an Orem School District.  They will be looking at all the facts, now that a feasibility study has been done.

  • School District size nationwide 2013-2014

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    Seth Cox

     Total School Districts, Student Enrollment by State and Metro Area https://www.governing.com/archive/school-district-totals-average-enrollment-statistics-for-states-metro-areas.html

  • SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, HIGH SCHOOL SIZE

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    Seth Cox

    SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, HIGH SCHOOL SIZE, and NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONSDavid A. Kaiser PhDRochester Institute of Technology , Rochester, New YorkPublished online: 08 Sep 2008. http://www.isnr-jnt.org/article/viewFile/16765/10726 To cite this article: David A. Kaiser PhD (2005) School Shootings, High School Size, and Neurobiological Considerations, Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience, 9:3, 101-115 To link to…

  • GUEST OPINION: LARGER SCHOOLS HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON STUDENTS

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    Seth Cox

    In the early 1960’s research was put forward that called for bigger high schools. These schools would provide more opportunities for less cost. It is important to note that this research called for increasing school size to 400-500 students, something we would today call very small!  What was a true conclusion then, for the size they were…

  • RECENT ARTICLE ON THE SCHOOL SIZE ISSUE

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    Seth Cox

    The following article discusses the school size issue and attempts to do it in a “balanced, not-taking-a-side” way.  Unfortunately this allows unsupported statements to be put on an equal footing with supported statements in an attempt to “balance” the discussion.  In other cases it allows a clearer view of the approach that opposing proponents have…

  • Declaration of Educational Independence 2004

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    Seth Cox

     PIONEER SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSAL  When in the course of growing populations, it becomes necessary for one area to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of other local and similar governing bodies, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Human Nature and of the…

  • District division actually makes a middle school drama program available in Jordan District

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    Seth Cox

    The principal at a middle school in Jordan School District (Utah) that was divided, told a job candidate (April 2017) that they now have a drama program, that before they could not have.  Part of the reason they could now have the program was because of the district division. It freed up the money to…

  • Administrative Costs per Pupil Compared to District Size in Utah 2013-2014

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    Seth Cox

    These most recent statistics compiled from the Utah Taxpayers Association “School Spending Report: Fiscal Year 2013-2014,” April 2015 verifies the conclusions of my previous study comparing administrative costs per student to size of district (with the possible change of the number from 1000 to 2000 in student population). This graph shows that while the smallest…