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Download full textKansas State Department of Education, 2024
The Kansas Graduate and Dropout Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calculates and reports the Adjusted Cohort Graduation and Annual Dropout Rates. Sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Terminology; (3) Data Sources; (4) Graduation Calculations; (5) Dropout Calculation; and (6)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Home Schooling, Students with Disabilities
Kansas State Department of Education, 2022
The Kansas Graduate and Dropout Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calculates and reports the Adjusted Cohort Graduation and Annual Dropout Rates. Sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Terminology; (3) Data Sources; (4) Graduation Calculations; (5) Dropout Calculation; and (6)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Home Schooling, Students with Disabilities
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Direct linkGustafson, David C.; Haque, MD – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
Virtual schools are one of the fastest growing educational options for students in the United States. In spite of the increase in virtual program options and enrollment, limited research has been conducted on how virtual school principals lead their organizations. This qualitative case study explores the challenges facing virtual school principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Virtual Schools, Leadership, Public Schools
Carpenter, Dick; Dunn, Joshua – Journal of School Choice, 2020
This study examined educational experiences of families under COVID and their schooling decisions in the 2021 school year. Results from a survey of 1743 parents indicate most schools provided educational resources ranging from hardcopy packets to live online instruction. Parents were generally positive about the experience. Parents in private and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Powers, Jeanne M. – National Education Policy Center, 2023
School ratings are a ubiquitous feature of the U.S. educational system. Alongside state-mandated measures of school performance, non-state organizations such as GreatSchools.org and Niche have created consumer-oriented systems of school ratings that draw on publicly available information about schools. Claiming the purpose of their rating systems…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Equal Education, Race, Ethnicity
Kelly Robson; Lynne Graziano; Jennifer O'Neal Schiess – National Comprehensive Center, 2020
Today, nearly all states either offer or allow digital learning in some form, with instruction provided by a variety of providers. This instruction typically takes one of three forms: (1) Full-time virtual schools: Students take their entire course load online via an independent, charter, or district-sponsored program; (2) Blended learning models:…
Descriptors: School Choice, Electronic Learning, Virtual Schools, Enrollment
Jacksonville Public Education Fund, 2014
The landscape of school choice options in public education has been expanding faster than ever over the past decade, nationwide and especially in Florida. With this expansion has come an unprecedented array of new decisions that parents and guardians must learn to navigate as they seek the best school for their children. Options available to…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Trends, Parent Attitudes, Preferences
Whitehurst, Grover J.; Klein, Ellie – Brookings Institution, 2015
The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings releases an annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is manifested in the nation's 100+ largest school districts. The ECCI scores and ranks districts on the degree to which families within the district's borders have access to: (1) maximum choice; (2) a…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2015
The Brookings Institution releases an annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is manifested in the nation's 100+ largest school districts. The ECCI scores and ranks districts on the degree to which families within the district's borders have access to: (1) maximum choice; (2) a choice process that…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Brookings Institution, 2014
Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice relevant to choice. The intent of the ECCI is to: create public awareness of the differences among…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Brookings Institution, 2012
Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice relevant to choice. The intent of the ECCI is to: create public awareness of the differences among…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
