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CHAPTER V
SCHOOL FACILITIES
5.0 Introduction
With the Project Consultants’ analysis of the School District of Bruce’s,
Ladysmith-Hawkins School District’s, and Weyerhaeuser Area School
District’s sizes, enrollment, enrollment trends, finances, educational
programs and services, staffing, organizations, delivery systems and
methodologies, and related issues, a contextual frame of reference had
been established within which assessments could be made on the
conditions of the three school districts’ current facilities. Those
assessments are/were particularly important in this and other
Consolidation Feasibility Studies since such studies frequently include
discussions about—if not the reality of—the possibility of school closures
as one mechanism to achieve long-term organizational cost/effectiveness.
5.1 Importance of School Facilities
It is axiomatic that the environment in which a process occurs (in this case,
the education of learners) is supremely important to an organization’s
mission statement, goals, productivity, performance, and public
accountability. School facilities provide the environment within which the
teaching/learning process unfolds and within which students either will or
will not acquire skills, concepts, processes, attitudes, and attributes
necessary to function with distinction in the highly-competitive global
economy that does and will continue to characterize the 21 st Century.
It is with more than just passing interest the Project Consultants observed
that, only in the last few decades, school districts have given studied
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