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How is Your School Doing Under No Child Left Behind?

How is your school and school district doing under No Child Left Behind?

According to the School Information Partnership, student achievement data from all public schools and school districts in 17 states is now available online at SchoolResults.org. The states are:

* Arizona
* Arkansas
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Indiana
* Maryland
* Minnesota
* Missouri
* New Jersey
* North Carolina
* Ohio
* Pennsylvania
* Washington
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
* Virginia

Data from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico will be available on the web by the end of 2004.

The School Information Partnership is a public-private collaboration designed to empower parents, educators and policymakers to use the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) data to make informed decisions and improve school results.

This Project will improve public access to information about the academic acheivement of schools, school districts, and states and will:

* Give parents information about the performance and demographic makeup of their children’s schools, and other schools and districts across their state;

* Provide educators with tools to diagnose areas that need improvement and identify schools that use effective practices;

* Empower state and local policymakers by providing tools and benchmarks so they can monitor the progress of schools and school districts and make better policy decisions; and

* Report student achievement data to the media who will inform readers about local schools and their progress under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Dan Katzir, Managing Director of The Broad Foundation, says, “Parents have a right to know how their students are performing in school, and whether they are learning in a particular school. The School Information Partnership provides a powerful tool for parents so that they can acquire the information they need to make informed decisions about their children’s futures."

"The School Information Partnership will allow parents, teachers, and administrators to see what is working well in our education system and where we need to devote more attention," said Governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue.

Read the press release about SchoolResults.org at http://www.broadfoundation.org/med-news/index-net.shtml

This news release is from No Child Left Behind Extra Credit. To sign up to receive NCLB Extra Credit update, go to http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/extracredit/subscribe.html.