Dobbin, Murray. Charter Schools: Charting a Course to Social Division. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, January 1997.

Dobbin attacks charter schools as a vehicle for creating an elite with public education, which he argues will detrimentally divide our society. He maintains that the charter school movement is based on myths and he refutes the notion that public education is deteriorating.

Drier, William H and Goudy Wills, Is There Life in Town after the Death of the High School?: or High Schools and the Population of Midwest Towns. Manhattan, KS: paper presented at the Annual Rural and Small Schools Conference, October 24, 1994.

The author conclude that a community without a high school loses population faster when compared to all other towns losing population during the same period.

Elizabeth Cleaners Street School. Starting Your Own High School. New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1972.

This book is self-explanatory. It essentially follows a group of parents, students, and teachers in New York as they attempt to and eventually do set up their own school. It is a step-by step guide, however case-specific. It is an interesting book because it displays the development stages and the resources needed to set up an alternative school.

Fanning, Jim. "Rural School Consolidation and Student Learning," ERIC Digest Number EDO-RC-95-4, August, 1995.

Fanning, citing a study by E. Young (4/94), states, "There is growing evidence that school consolidation offers little or no financial advantage in controlling costs."

Finn, Chester E., Louann A. Bierlein, Bruno V. Manno. Charter Schools In Action: What Have We Learned? Washington D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1996.

Chester Finn is one of the leading experts on education in the United States and the author of 10 books. Together with Bierlein and Manno, he discusses the impact of charter schools on the public system and how they can meet the needs of rural areas.