This "Profile" is a collection of statistical information about North Carolina's elementary and secondary schools. It is the 28th edition of a publication initiated in 1975. The book provides general statistical information to the public, professional educators, and the North Carolina General Assembly. The profile contains information on…

This publication reports on an annual survey, conducted by the National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS), of state financial data that is part of the Common Core of Data. The report presents state-level analyses of revenues and expenditures for the 1997-98 school year for grades prekindergarten through 12 in public schools in the 50…

This publication provides a detailed look at public education in Texas for the 1998-1999 school year. It provides the basic information needed to examine the differences among school districts and to assess their relative strengths and weaknesses. "Snapshot '99" begins with an overview of education at the state level, followed by the…

This publication presents information on school statistics for South Dakota and its 176 school districts. Just over half (50.9%) of the state's schools have 1 to 100 students, and only 6.7% enroll more than 500 students. The 1997-98 state enrollment of 132,024 represents a decline from the enrollment of 134,052 in 1995-96. State summary…

This publication provides a detailed look at public education in Texas for the 1997-98 school year. Published annually since 1987-88, "Snapshot" presents a broad range of information about the state's 3,891,988 students, its teachers, and its schools. It begins with a statistical overview of education at the state level. This overview…

The current context of policy issues and limits of current state education data systems underscore the need to create new, detailed, and comprehensive school-level data systems. Such data could be used to illuminate policy issues relating to governance, resource utilization, accountability, equity, and adequacy. In this special issue, authors…

The estimates in this publication are key statistics reported early in the 1995-96 school year. The early estimates system is designed to allow the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to report selected key statistics early in the school year using information collected from public school state education agencies. These estimates…

This report presents information on public elementary schools and secondary schools for the 1990-91 school year and the 1990 fiscal year, with an appendix containing final revised data for the 1989-90 school year and the 1989 fiscal year. Statistics are based on data collected through two of the four surveys of the Common Core of Data (CCD)…

School finance is basic to understanding and improving the condition of rural education. Information necessary for financial planning and policy development at the state and local levels is stored in large computer readable data bases and needs to be accessed. Pertinent data elements need to be extracted from the data base and relationships among…

Information from 171 diocesan offices across the United States was drawn together to prepare this statistical report on enrollments and revenues in Catholic elementary schools. The report, one of the annual statistical reports on Catholic education developed using the National Catholic Educational Association's national database, also provides…

This report provides statistics on the revenue, expenditure, debt, and financial assets in 1984 of school systems in the United States as a whole, in each state, and in individual school systems having enrollments of 15,000 or more. The data were collected by the United States Census Bureau during its 1984 Annual Survey of Government Finances. The…

This paper analyzes data needs for policy purposes and is divided into three sections: (1) revenue and expenditure data; (2) human resources data; and (3) time and curriculum resources data. Federal data collection concerned with resources should identify the state as the unit of analysis, should broaden the definition of resources beyond revenues…

This resource book was designed to provide school staff and the community with a source of information about the District of Columbia public schools. The following data are provided for the school year 1984-85: (1) Board of Education, central administration, and regional offices; (2) student membership; (3) student membership by race; (4) student…

The purpose of this study was to gather data and test the hypothesis that the number of constant dollars expended for educational supervision by Louisiana public school systems increased during the decade from 1963 to 1974. To facilitate comparison of expenditures from different years, all financial data are expressed in terms of "constant…

Act Number 307, Public Acts of Michigan 1969, mandates that the Department of Education provide annual assessment of pupil achievement in basic skills -- reading, vocabulary, English expression and mathematics. The purpose of the assessment program is to provide information about groups of children for decision makers at the state level. A…