Introduction
The Irving District was established in the year of 1903 by J.O Schulze, and Otis Brown was a cofounder in this regard as well. However, the element of multiculturalism remained a powerful one in the town from early history, and according to consensus conducted in 2010, 53.1% of the total population is made out of Whites, 12.3% is represented by African Americans, 0.9% piece of the pie goes to Native Americans, and 14% are Asians.
The people from Pacific Island are 0.1% of the population. 3.5% people belong to multiple racial backgrounds. Finally Hispanic and Latino joined to cover 41% of the entire population of the town. The current total number of people living in the geographical location is more than 200,000. The location is facing greater level of threat associated with increment of poverty because more than 90% of the students in Southern Irving has the right to have free of charge or inexpensive lunch due to poor income of the household from where they come. The population living in suburbs represented the 47% of the total number, and the ratio is still rising. 30% of the households had low income, and the people living in urban areas were 23% of the total population.
The suburban population is growing with leaps and bounds and the situation is becoming alarming with the passage of time. Total number of K-12 elementary schools in the area is 1,234, and total number of students enrolled is 34,851. The budget of the established educational district is 250 million in US dollars. The contributing of federal, local and state funding can be broken down to 50% and 25% each respectively. Expenditure per student is 10.351 USD in 2012, and the average property wealth per pupil is more than 285,000 dollars. The schools pay $ 1.45 on average over the profit of hundred.
The educational sector is proactively engaged in terms of providing free and cheap education to the deserving students, but the efforts are not converting in socioeconomic growth that is the ultimate objective of such public endeavors (Giangreco and Edelman, 21). The poverty is increasing, and therefore, the families cannot sustain the educational careers of their offspring, and the remedy for such an eventuality always lies in the planned stimulation of the industrial and services sectors.
The employing of the human resource would enhance in that manner, and as a result, the standards of living would jump to a better place. The Independent School District (ISD) needs to add technical education in its setup so that the students can attain skillfulness in the production and operational areas of the corporate sector. The presence of skilled, but inexpensive labor will attract direct investment from the leading companies of the country into a suffering and pained geographical area, and the mechanism of ISD could attain its true vision. The families would gain financial and fiscal capacity to burden their children’s education, and the percentage of urban and suburban population would return to normal levels eventually.
Conclusion and Recommendations
The educational model has to serve the needs and wants of the relevant industrialists in order to prove social value and effectiveness, but the ISD is moving in that particular direction because the strategic leadership is not foreseeing the requirements of the corporate sector, and thusly, the management is failing to create an effective educational world despite all the efforts and vested financial and personal energies.
Works Cited
Giangreco, Michael and Susan Edelman. "Common Professional Practices That Interfere with the Integrated Delivery of Related Services." Remedial and Special Education 12.2 (1991): 16-24. Online.
