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funds from the State. Eleven proposed elementary schools and the high school mentioned earlier have been approved by the State. Because of declining enrollments District-wide, new construction is not an alternative for consideration by the Garden Grove District. Portable Housing: Both the GGUSD and khe ~D have long made it a practice to utilize portable classro.o? facilities to meet "temporary classroom needs." Enrollment fluctuations between various neighborhoods tn the City have been most economically served by the use of portable classroem facilities. When such facilities are no longer needed at one school, they are usually in demand at several others. There are several concerns regarding the use of portables. The first is that while they provide additional classroom space, there comes a point in time in ~hich increased school size places demands on other such facilities which portables cannot normally address. For example, restroom facilities and lunch-serving capacities at some sites are hard pressed by the expanded enrollment possible through the use of portables. Portable classrooms have relieved the instructional overcrowding at these sites, but exacerbated other overcrcn~ing problems. Another negative aspect of the use of portables is that these units, while temporary, are included as classroom space for the purposes of the distribution of new school construction funding. If these classrooms are leased rather than purchased, they ~ould not be included and the leasing District ~ould be in a more favorable position to obtain Green Act funding for new school construction. Boundary Chanies: Together with the use of portable classrooms, boundary changes havebeen the alternative most often used to meet chansing student ~s!.,o. needs in th~ City during the last 20 years. This was essentially the met,~Od'used in the bAUSD to equalize enrollment between District intermediate schools last year. That it is not always completely successful demonstrates this alternative's short term nature. Alternative Schools: The lack of boundaries is also an alternative which can be used to e££ectively meet student housing needs. Alternative schools, such as the £und~ental school program, with their "open enrollment" help to reduce overcrowding. Other forms of alternative programs or "magnet schools' could serve as a viable method to house students who ~ould normally otherwise be in an overcrowded neighborhood school. Another type of aagnet scheol which could lead to the reduction of overcrewding at the high school level ~ould be the creation o£ "mini high schools.'t These ~ould be programs £or several hundred students which could become an integral part of the District's Applied Curriculu~ Program or the "strand" concept ~hich is in the ieplementation process. For example, a program stressing electronics eight he housed in a factory or other similar industrial facility in an area ~hich contains several large electronics corporations. The curriculum ~ould be oriented around the academic requirements of beth the District and the electronics industry. The proximity to these types of business ~ould be necessary to provide the working partnership between the District and its quality academic program, and the practical skills and knowledges o£ the specific industry. The housing alternatives discussed above include only physical considerations such as structures and boundaries which affect long range planning. Other factors which impact long range planning are programmatic and economic factors which this element only briefly discusses because these factors are not within the City's control. These £actors are addressed in the folloving section on constraints and opportunities. ,05i