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Financial Retrenchment: A Phenomenological Study Of Two Public School Districts In One Community, John Andrew Asplund
Financial Retrenchment: A Phenomenological Study Of Two Public School Districts In One Community, John Andrew Asplund
Theses and Dissertations
This study investigated how two school districts within the same community reacted to the closure of an electric generating power plant that provided approximately 45% of each district's property tax revenue.
The districts under study were chosen for two reasons: (1) They were both affected by the closure of the power plant, and (2) They exemplify the peculiar nature of Illinois public schools. Even though both districts exist in the same relatively small town and serve the same families throughout their schooling, they remain separate, yet parallel, entities.
The two districts are parallel in that the power plant was responsible …