Because NAEP estimates of state-level achievement play an important role in the evaluation of strategies for improving the nation's educational system, it is important that these estimates have as small a standard error as possible. NAEP estimates for state-level achievement are based on measurement of the performance of a random sample of…

The consequences of not graduating from high school are increasingly serious for both individuals and society as a whole. As a result, state and federal accountability systems now require reporting of more detailed graduation and dropout data. The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires states to report disaggregated…

This report provides data tables analyzing revenues from state governments and combined revenues from state government and state university sources for each state, as reported to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by public broadcasting licensees in the Annual Financial Report survey for fiscal year 1996. All revenue amounts contained in the…

Survey data and exhibits are presented from all 50 states concerning the planning and financing of public school facility design and construction. Survey results are displayed in two formats. The first is a pictorial display of the data that shows each state's Department of Education's response on a United States map. Accompanying these exhibits…

This report presents findings of an audit of the New York State Education Department's Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID). The audit concluded that VESID oversight of school districts may not be adequately targeting formal reviews of special education programs to those districts that pose the…

The 1999 Statewide Factbook contains statistical information about Texas public community college and technical colleges. The following sections are included: Enrollment, Remediation, First-Time-in-College (FTIC) Cohort Tracking Analysis, Transfer and Retention, Placement Data, Contact Hours/Semester Credit Hours, Degrees/Certificates Awarded,…

The California Legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee investigated several "joint venture" partnerships between school districts and the private sector to develop school district-owned properties to determine the feasibility of such innovative school construction projects. This report presents findings from seven of these…

The role of the Iowa Ambassador to Education is to be a liaison between the state department of education and primary and secondary schools. To prepare for the year of conversations across the state, the ambassador formulated three questions that she asked everywhere she went: 1) What is good about your school? 2) What would you change to improve…

Using secondary sources and interviews, this study collected data from the 50 states on how they assess student and school performance and implement accountability. Detailed findings revealed an array of practices by states. The findings answer: (1) "How are states measuring student performance?" (2) "How are states reporting performance on these…

This document reports on the salaries paid in faculty and selected administrative positions in the Oklahoma state system of higher education. The average salary for all full-time faculty equated to a 9-10 month basis in Oklahoma state-supported colleges and universities is $46,145 for the year 1998-99. This is an increase of $956 or 2.1% above…

Principals' support for various approaches to educational planning were examined in rural and suburban schools in Ohio and West Virginia. It was expected that rational approaches to planning would be more prevalent in suburban than rural schools and in a state with more tightly coupled bureaucratic control (West Virginia) than a less tightly…

By contrast with other education and school service programs, the school lunch is new. Like any other new program, time is required to work out in detail its proper placement in the school organization, its exact functions in relation to the total school program, and the characteristics which tend to make it a part of the educational program, yet…

The short focus which follows is limited to a consideration of State support systems, specifically statewide provision for local district financing. (Author/RK)

Costs of programs for 10 categories of exceptional children were compared with costs of regular educational programs on the basis of data from 24 school districts in five states. (GW)

One State official says that revenue sharing is the greatest hoax'' of the year because it misleads the public into believing that more federal funds are available to the States when in reality they give it with one hand and take it away quietly with another.'' (Author/JN)