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consideration to the degree to which school facilities may enhance or<br />

detract from the delivery of educational programs and services for and the<br />

successes achieved by students.<br />

Prior to the 1970’s and the onset of special education programs, gender<br />

equity in the delivery of curricular, extra-curricular, and co-curricular<br />

programs, handicapped accessibility, health and life safety issues,<br />

technology expansion, child-care, early childhood/family education<br />

programming, parent education, Senior Citizen programming, multiinstitutional<br />

collaboration, burgeoning recreational and enrichment<br />

programming, and a myriad of other programs and services, school<br />

facilities simply “housed” instructional programs and services. In today’s<br />

and tomorrow’s information age, school facilities must do much more than<br />

“house” the needs of pre-schoolers, school-aged students, parents, and<br />

community patrons. Access to sophisticated laboratories, a range of coeducational<br />

programs, rapidly changing technology, sophisticated media,<br />

child-care programming, early childhood opportunities, enhanced<br />

parent/patron involvement in the schools, business/educational<br />

partnerships, performance-based curricular design, multi-district<br />

telecommunications connectivity, co-located governmental programs and<br />

services, expanded volunteerism, community-based and project-based<br />

learning, graduation standards’ implementation, and much, much more<br />

must be taken into consideration in appraising and addressing existing<br />

and/or future school facilities.<br />

In part, the <strong>School</strong> District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins <strong>School</strong> District,<br />

and Weyerhaeuser Area <strong>School</strong> District Consolidation Feasibility Study<br />

is focused on assessing the school districts’ teaching/learning<br />

© Roger Worner Associates, Inc.<br />

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