"This study investigates the influence of school quality (measured at the high school level) on 1980 to 1990 population and employment change for nonmetropolitan fringe and hinterland census tracts in South Carolina. A Boarnet variation of the Carlino-Mills model is used to examine the interdependence of population and employment change.... Results...indicate that fringe tracts' population gro...

SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE SOUTH I n 2005, there were roughly 35,000 public school facilities and nearly 19 million students in the South. Schools in the region range from the 5,060-student Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida (one of the largest schools in the country) to the nine-student Plainview Elementary School in Texhoma, Oklahoma. At the national level, America’s 49 million students...