This is the third Bibliography of the State Educational Accountability Repository (SEAR) published under the sponsorship of the Cooperative Accountability Project administered by the State of Colorado. SEAR is a collection of more than 800 State education agency reports and articles concerning accountability practices and procedures. The contents…

This revision of earlier reports reproduces copies of, or excerpts from, legislation that has been enacted through August 1973 in 27 States. The facets of accountability that the laws cover are State testing or assessment programs; evaluation of professional employees; performance contracting; planning, programming, and budgeting systems;…

This looseleaf publication updates an earlier report. Some of the pages contain new laws enacted since the first report was completed. The report provides tables showing the status of accountability legislation as of the fall of 1972 and texts of the actual bills or laws in a State-by-State format. The facets of accountability that the laws cover…