This report contains summaries of dropout information as well as more detailed breakdowns that portray the dropout situation in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District in 1991-92. Statistics are reported in terms of annual rates as well as longitudinal rates. This report contains high school and junior high school rates for 1984-85 through…

Louisiana is one of the few states that uses indicator data to produce school report cards for statewide distribution to parents. The system, the Progress Profiles Program, produces report cards that must be accessible, meaningful, and understandable to a lay audience. An evaluation of the 1991-92 report cards was undertaken in 1993. In Phase 1…

This paper documents the multistep procedure used by the Louisiana Department of Education, Bureau of School Accountability to correct and verify the data that drive the state's statewide school performance indicator program, the "Progress Profiles." The paper also reports the findings of a nationwide survey in which state departments of…

Fulfilling its legislative mandate, the Alaska State Department of Education prepares annual profiles on state school districts. The summary of data in this publication represents only a portion of information gathered about Alaska public schools, but it does provide information on school operations, facilities, programs, students, and personnel.…

Based on the ninth annual national survey of public school salaries and wages, this first part of a three-part report examines the salary schedules--as opposed to salaries actually paid--for 23 professional positions in 1,120 school systems. A lengthy table lists each district, arrayed alphabetically by state, and presents data on district…

Drawing on data from the ninth annual national survey of public school salaries and wages, this second part of a three-part report looks at the salaries actually paid for 22 professional positions in 1,120 school districts. Among the positions covered are superintendents, central office staff, principals, teachers, librarians, counselors, and…

This report provides statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 1984-85 fiscal year on the revenue, expenditure, debt and financial assets of public school systems, including some local institutions of higher education, in the United States as a whole, in each state, and in individual school systems having enrollments of 15,000 or…

The data presented in this report provide facts about the extent to which national, state, and local governments commit resources to educate the youth of the nation. Estimated data, based on survey responses of state education agencies, are featured for the current school year (1988-89) and for the prior year (1987-88) by state, with summary…

Eight and one-half percent of the school district superintendents in the United States responded to questionnaires in 1985 concerning their opinions about education, their roles and working conditions, their relations with school boards, their backgrounds and professional interests, and the characteristics of their districts. Tabulations of the…

This report provides statistics for the 1982-83 fiscal year on the revenues, expenditures, debt, and financial assets of public school systems, including public higher education, in the the United States. The information, collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, is presented for the nation as a whole, for the states, and for individual school systems…

This report lists contract salaries of superintendents and the minimum and maximum salaries scheduled in 1985-86 by 1,104 responding school systems for 21 other selected professional positions surveyed. The length of the school year is also noted. Eighteen summary tables show percentile distributions, means, and ranges of minimum and maximum…

This report looks at the 1985-86 contract salaries of superintendents and at salary data reported for each of the other professional positions by 1,104 public school systems surveyed in the fall of 1985. The number of persons employed in each category is also shown. Twenty-five summary tables show salary distributions, means, medians, and the…

Representing a broad cross section of data bearing on the operation and performance of public schools in New Mexico during the school year 1979-80, the document presents data on school district characteristics, teacher characteristics, pupil characteristics, school finance, high school graduates, American College Testing (ACT) results, and results…

This report provides national and state summaries of local public education agency revenues by source and expenditures by function for fiscal year 1980. National trends since fiscal year 1971 are presented and discussed in the text. The appendix consists of 10 tables of financial statistics that provide detailed information about each state for…

The methodologies, instruments, and procedures that were used by Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in conducting its part of the Safe School Study are described in detail. The report focuses on methods, the rationale for their selection, and their implementation. It also addresses various practical problems encountered. The sample design is…