| SchoolMatters
(A Service of Standard & Poor's) |
SchoolMatters,
a public source for information and analysis about our
nation's public schools, gives policymakers, educators,
and parents the tools they need to make better-informed
decisions that improve student performance. SchoolMatters
will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders.
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Information
and analysis about how schools and school districts
are performing and the complex relationships between
achievement and investment.
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Easy access to the information needed to craft strong
education policies helping to empower educators and
policymakers.
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Giving
parents and the general public instant access to a
wide range of data on local schools and schools districts,
enabling them to make informed decisions, ranging
from policies they advocate to the schools their children
attend.
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NASBE
(National Association of State Boards of Education)
The
National Association of State Boards of Education is a
non-profit organization founded in 1958. NASBE works to
strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking,
promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate
equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure
continued citizen support for public education.
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| 2005
National Education Summit on High Schools Yields Action,
$42 Million State Grants |
An
Action Agenda to Improve America's High Schools |
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Created
by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve,
Inc., is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that
helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments
and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people
for post-secondary education, work and citizenship.
New
Jersey is one of the 13-state network formed to strengthen
the high school diploma by implement recommendations from
the 2005 National Summit on High Schools. |
| New
Jersey Department of Education |
NJ
QSAC (NJ Quality Single
Accountability Continuum)
QSAC is the Department of Education's proposed new monitoring
system. The purpose is to measure student, school and
school district's performance in meeting State and federal
standards. Lincoln Park is scheduled for monitoring 2006-2007
school year |
NJQSAC
Fact Sheet |
NJQSAC
Field Test Description and Training
(Sept. 2004 PowerPoint Presentation) |
| New
Jersey School Boards Association |
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Disturbing
Provision Embedded in Convention Report
(Press Release 01/04/05) |
| Administrative
Spending Declines In New Jersey Schools
(Press Release 12/03/04) |
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| Center
on Education Policy |
| What’s
Good About Public Schools |
Full Report--Preserving
Principles of Public Education in an Online World
(Summary
Report) |
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