A comprehensive portrait of the Bronx (New York City) and schooling provided there is presented. The background paper, "Education in the Bronx," and "Socioeconomic Profile of the Bronx" are provided, which present data about the schools and conditions in which the 1.2 million Bronx residents live. Enrollment demographics, test…

Designed to assist individual two-year institutions in analyzing their financial performance in relation to regional and statewide norms, this report presents comparative financial statistics for the 1989-90 fiscal year derived from a sample of 531 public community and junior colleges. The three main sections of the report present, respectively,…

Information about limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) is summarized. In the 1990-91 school year, 5,047 students in the AISD were served in LEP programs at elementary schools (3,933 students), middle schools (555 students), and secondary schools (559 students). Most were Spanish…

This volume (second of three) contains statistical tables displaying origin or origin grouping of credit course students attending the State University of New York System. The volume contains six parts: Part 1 contains separate tables for each New York State county; Part 2 displays the permanent residence of students from outside of New York State…

This is the 25th annual report of data on the distribution of minority group students in the public schools of Connecticut for the fall of 1990, and the 23rd to report data on minority staff members. The data, collected under a legislative mandate, are used to monitor any possible imbalance of white and minority students in the public schools. In…

A study was done to determine the extent to which children in public high and low poverty schools receive similar services and levels of supports, and whether public schools receiving Chapter 1 assistance appear to have more services and support than do similar non-Chapter 1 schools. The study used data from the base year Schools and Staffing…

Sixteen tables present information about the ethnic and racial distribution of the students and staff of New York State public schools in the 1991-92 school year. The first three tables present the racial and ethnic distributions of all students, of Black and Hispanic American students, and the percent distribution of students by racial and ethnic…

This report sets the 1990-91 baseline from which the nation's urban public schools will measure their progress on the six National Urban Education Goals. The report contains four major chapters measuring the status of urban schools using various indicators. The first chapter presents data on the demographics of city schools and compares those…

Statistics on education in New York State for 1991-92 and trends from earlier years are reported in this series of tables. Emphasis is placed on summary tables and figures, but details for separate school districts are provided. Information is reported for elementary, secondary, higher, and professional education, as well as libraries and special…

The estimates in this report are key statistics reported early in the 1993-94 school year under the early estimates system, which allows the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to report important information promptly. These key statistics include the numbers of students in membership, teachers, and high school graduates for public…

This report provides statistical tables on the age groups and sex of full-time and part-time graduate and undergraduate students in the State University of New York (SUNY) system for Fall 1992. Part 1 contains data for the entire system including headcount tables with corresponding percent distribution arrays. Part 2 displays headcount and…

Tabulated data on salaries of elementary school and secondary school teachers are reported for South Carolina for the 1990-91 school year. Salary schedules are presented for the state as a whole, the 91 geographic school districts, and two special school districts: Palmetto Unified School District, and South Carolina Department of Youth Services.…

The Monitoring Commission for Desegregation Implementation of Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools is responsible for monitoring and making recommendations about student racial and ethnic distribution in the Chicago schools by a consent decree. In a series of discussion papers, this report presents findings from a survey of principals and teachers…

This report on school finance trends in urban areas is based on an analysis of the fiscal and demographic features of 44 major U.S. cities, as these have changed between 1970 and 1980. During this period, urban school systems experienced a median enrollment decline of 25 percent (2.5 times the national average), as a result of declining…

Kentucky is a state of extreme contrasts in virtually every area of human endeavor. Although it is a southern state, its black population is small and growing very slowly. The rich and the poor people are unequally distributed throughout the state. Because only half of the adults possess a high school diploma, one can assume that many Kentuckians…