This data supplement, which covers 1976-77, updates the statistics and information contained in EA 009 930. Both parts of "Planning for Better Education in Wisconsin" were compiled by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to provide information needed by local school boards, administrators, advisory committees, and agency school…

This first part of the 1980-81 report of the National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools examines salary schedules, as opposed to salaries actually paid, for 23 professional positions, from superintendents to teachers and nonsupervisory professional staff, in over 1,000 U.S. school systems. Minimum and maximum salaries for the…

This second part of the 1980-81 report of the National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools examines salaries actually paid professional personnel in 23 selected positions, from superintendents to teachers and nonsupervisory professional staff, in over 1,000 U.S. school systems. Lowest, highest, and average salaries paid employees in…

This report compiles basic data on students and educational personnel from a sample of operating local public school systems in the United States. The publication provides pertinent facts to Congress, the Commissioner of Education, Federal agencies, and other educational planners to assist them in making decisions on current educational issues.…

The publicly available statistical information on U.S. public school districts to date has been limited to certain demographic characteristics of districts, student enrollment and racial composition, and the numbers of teachers. To enlarge this fund of knowledge, information on the variety of attributes, policies, and practices of public school…

This annual report presents state-level data about education in Rhode Island, focusing this year on what appears to support or obstruct the relationship most central to education, that of teacher and student. Data are provided for the state's 37 school districts (including 1 operated by the state). The sections of the report are: (1) "Student…

Each year, comparable and comprehensive data about all of the nation's public elementary and secondary schools, local education agencies (LEAs), and state education agencies (SEAs) are collected through administration of the Common Core of Data (CCD) Surveys. This report summarizes CCD data for a period (1986-87 to 1990-91) during which major…

Four-year graduation rates by high school, district, county, and state were studied for Arizona in 1991, partly to establish a baseline from which to measure the effect of student retention programs. Members of the class of 1991 were identified as those who were first-time ninth graders in the 1987-88 school year. The median graduation rate was 72…

Information is presented about public school teachers and other holders of certificates in Colorado in 1991. The average salary for the 33,093 public school teachers was $33,072, representing a 3.9% increase over the 1990 average salary. This marked the third consecutive year that the average teacher salary in Colorado was below the national…

In 1992-93, there were 42.7 million students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Of these, 24 million were in prekindergarten through grade 6, 17.9 million were in grades 7 through 12, and 0.8 million were in ungraded classes. Nearly 2.5 million teachers provided instruction for these…

Consisting largely of 17 tables and 46 graphs, this document reports regional and subregional division characteristics of public elementary and secondary education (PESE) in 1988-89 in the United States; it also reports characteristics associated with the urbanicity, or most prevalent type of locale (TOL), and the relative wealth (RW) of states.…

The Florida Merit Schools Program is described and evaluated in this report. Program goals were to increase student academic performance and to provide economic incentives to school staffs. Research phases involved: document analysis of school district plans submitted to the state Department of Education; interviews with school personnel from five…

This report on school staffing ratios is prepared from information collected as part of Educational Research Service's "National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools, 1987-88," which provides data on salaries, wages, and number of staff for 22 professional and 10 support positions. Included are pupil-staff and teacher-staff…

This report focuses on the 55 largest public elementary and secondary school districts, measured by the number of students in membership, for the school year 1987-88. Information was analyzed from the 1987-88 school year Common Core of Data (CCD) series collected annually by the National Center for Education Statistics. The following summary…

A study investigated the possible dependence of educational outcomes on staff attributes and organizational size once socioeconomic indexes are taken into account. All data were obtained from the New Jersey Department of Education. The variables of interest and their operational definitions include school characteristics, teacher characteristics,…