Examining education achievement and its relationship to crime, this study develops predictive models for the total crime, violent crime, and property crime indexes. Seven indicies of crime were used: murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and auto theft. Additionally, crime and its relationship to education achievement on a regional…

What is the extent of persistent absenteeism from school and why does it happen? Sheffield Education Department set out in 1973 to find answers to these and some other related questions. (Editor)

Waukesha North High School in Wisconsin is perhaps much like most schools in the United States. It was considered by the community to be a good school, one that always generated above-average scores on state assessments, graduation rates, and attendance averages. Its students drew community recognition for their service and for their performances…

This paper describes a program intended to increase student attendance in a Savannah, Georgia, inner city high school. The author maintains that shifting the accountability for attendance to the students through peer pressure was perhaps the most significant reason for gains in attendance. He believes that a successful attendance increase program…

Dividing the number of students in average daily attendance (ADA) in a district into that district's assessed value can result in a distorted view of the district's actual wealth if the number of students in nonpublic schools is not taken into consideration. To attempt to see what this means to communities, three Illinois districts in which both…

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…

This bulletin contains information concerning the total annual calculated cost for pupil transportation for those Kentucky school districts that provide this service. The tentative calculated cost figures are based on the districts' reports for the 1978-79 school year. Under the Minimum Foundation Program the major portion of the district's…

This bulletin contains the statistics of private commercial and business schools for 1928-29. There is a noticeably constant fluctuation in the list of private commercial and business schools. Out of a list of approximately 1,850 private commercial schools of which the Office of Education had record during the period from June, 1925, to June,…

By 1973-74 the largest student ethnic minority group in California public schools was Spanish surname with approximately 17.2 percent of the state's total public school population; however, the Spanish surname had the lowest credential staff-pupil ratio (1:98) of all groups for 1973-74. (NQ)

After completing an audit of Chapter 1 allocations in five states, the U.S. Department of Education's inspector general suggested that authorizing legislation be amended to substitute some measure of membership for average daily attendance. States are also having trouble reporting current expenditures in conformance with the originally prescribed…

When the school or district is the unit of analysis in school effects research, the outcome of interest is mean achievement, and the variance explained by school or district level predictors is between schools or between districts. When the individual is the unit of analysis, the outcome of interest is individual achievement and the variance…

This study examines the relationship between size of school district (ADA) and several measures of educational outcome (mean and median reading and arithmetic scores at the 5th grade level) while controlling statistically for student and financial inputs (socioeconomic characteristics of communities and dollar expenditure per ADA, respectively).…

This manual is based on the belief that sufficient instructions on attendance accounting already existed, mostly in California laws and regulations and that attempts to restate the instructions in language other than the original might mislead the reader as to the intent and meaning of the instructions. The result is that the text of the manual…