This documentation is for the provisional version 1a file of the National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) for school year (SY) 2013-14, fiscal year 2014 (FY 14) conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) . It contains a brief description of the data collection, along with information required to understand and…

Describes a low-cost experiment to reinforce good student attendance and abandon the punitive approach of lowering grades and suspending chronic absentees. The Pocomoke High School program (Maryland) rewards students for superior attendance with certificates, press releases, congratulatory letters, positive phone calls to parents, and homeroom…

Outlines the program that one high school used to increase its yearly average daily attendance by one percentage point. The program involves giving recognition to individual students and to groups of students. (IRT)

Accuracy in student accounting procedures gives school districts a sound basis of financial and statistical information for all subsequent decision making. The purposes of this manual are to describe the student accounting system used in Oregon and to assist districts in their efforts to maintain accurate records and report properly to the state…

One of the South Carolina Department of Education's foremost responsibilities is to initiate attendance improvement programs. Among the services offered to carry out this responsibility is assistance to attendance personnel in developing professional approaches to absenteeism. This guide contains information on the role and function of attendance…

Guidelines, based on the California Education Code and the California Community College Student Attendance Accounting Manual, are presented as an aid to program-level administrators and staff preparing for a state audit of program attendance records. After introductory material examining the role of average daily attendance (ADA) and weekly…

Presenting guidelines for student attendance accounting developed by the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, this manual provides an update to the original guide published in 1983. Chapter 1 explains general items such as the academic calendar, admissions policies, student classification by enrollment status, and conditions…

Designed to accompany the videotape, "Finance of California Community Colleges," this workbook contains information, worksheets, and forms designed to help viewers assimilate the videotape's presentations on the history and future of California community college finance, and on income and expenditures in community college budgets. First,…