An independent panel has recommended a new funding policy and cash incentives to encourage smaller schools to merge.
Lately, college football's major conferences have hardly sounded like they're in a mood to give more ground to the smaller schools.
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Alongside the closure plans are proposals to increase the capacity of successful schools that will take in the pupils from smaller schools.
New York City has undergone a decadelong experiment of shutting down failing schools and replacing them, in some instances, with smaller schools.
Again, it really comes back to the--really the backdrop to this whole thing, which is how do you pay for these smaller schools.
The panel has recommended a simpler funding formula and financial incentives so that smaller schools are better off if they join with schools nearby.
Raising Malawi at first planned to build a major girls academy, but later revised its goal and joined buildOn to construct smaller schools in villages.
The contracts only further distanced them from the smaller schools.
Judith Simmonds, who has taught at Pott Row First for 18 years, said supporters battled to keep the smaller schools open ahead of the Schools Adjudicator's final decision in March.
The government promises a minimum funding guarantee which they say will protect smaller schools at least until after the next General Election and so ease fears they might fall into that apocryphal abyss.
Score says the changes could result in "severe funding cuts" and that some smaller schools might decide not to offer science A-levels while others might have to cut teaching time, reduce practical work or employ less experienced staff.
Remember that about a year and a half ago in October of 2004 the Los Angeles Board of Education approved a plan to scale down all the sprawling district's secondary schools and even smaller schools from 350 to 500 students ideally.
College football is probably slightly worse than college basketball simply because the current BCS setup vastly limits the abilities of non power-conference schools to compete for the national championship where as March Madness affords smaller schools a much better opportunity to claim a national title.
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How soon this may occur remains to be seen, but the the additional millions in revenue the new college football playoff will provide BCS conferences, coupled with their decision to eliminate the one source in which smaller schools could obtain a piece of those funds, will almost certainly accelerate the timetable for any such fracturing.
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Simon Northcott, head teacher of St Anselm's in Bakewell, Derbyshire, which also failed to qualify, said that smaller primary schools in particular would be "nervous at the findings".
The Conservative-run council said smaller, rural schools were more expensive to run and the change to funding meant its ability to support them had been "diminished".
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But smaller, less prominent schools often lack the capital to upgrade their facilities or to market themselves and are being squeezed out.
So, desirable though some of Mr Gore's proposals may be (such as breaking up impersonally large public schools into smaller units), they are not enough.
But for Division I schools either with smaller football programs or without football altogether, covering that expense might prove prohibitive.
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The key, he thinks, lies in breaking the state down into innovative smaller units, like charter schools in America and academies in Britain.
High-priced private schools usually offer smaller class sizes.
The MWC schools are in a smaller geographical circle and have larger and more regional population bases.
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While such specialist degrees are currently only offered by smaller, second-tier business schools, the larger players are watching their success with interest.
As more schools embraced online education, smaller, less well-known colleges and for-profit universities drove further innovation in the online education space.
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The sample design still does not permit comparisons of smaller subsets, such as districts or schools, although some districts have given the tests on their own in order to make such comparisons.
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The report also says schools should find ways to offer disability-specific teams, such as wheelchair tennis or wheelchair basketball, either on their own (for larger districts), or cooperatively with other schools or park districts (for smaller districts).
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Letting charter schools exit the pension system leaves a smaller pool of public school systems to cover existing funding gaps.
Larger fundamentalist schools charge fees and grant scholarships, but smaller ones have a different approach.
The schools say it will save money and save the smaller school from closure.
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