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School, District, & State Report Cards

• California School Accountability Report Card
  Public schools throughout California are required to provide information about themselves to the community in the form of an annual School Accountability Report Card (SARC). These report cards provide a variety of data to allow the public to evaluate and compare schools in terms of student achievement, environment, resources and demographics.
• Georgia Department of Ed Report Card
  The Georgia ppublic education report card includes testing data of all 1,969 schools and 180 school systems in Georgia, enableing comparisons of scores with schools and districts across the state.
• GreatSchools.net: online guide to k-12 schools
  GreatSchools.net is a source of school information on elementary, middle and high schools. A nonprofit organization, GreatSchools.net provides information about public, private and charter schools in all 50 states and detailed school profiles for California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and Washington.
• High Stakes Testing Position Statement
  The Alliance for Childhood presents a position statement on high-stakes testing. This position maintains that such testing is harmful to children, that the technology of testing is flawed, and that high-stakes testing is damaging to public education itself.
• New Jersey Dept of Ed Report Card
  In 1995, the New Jersey Legislature passed the law that mandates a New Jersey Report Card for every school in the state. Over the last seven years, the Department of Education has expanded the data in the report card to provide as much information as possible to enable parents and community members to make judgments about the effectiveness of their schools.
• Ohio Department of Ed Report Card
  ODE provides a variety of services and communications materials with Local Report Card information, including Tips for Local Report Card users. School Report cards and customizable report cards will be added in March, 2003.
• The Ed Watch Interactive State & National Data Site
  Ed Watch Interactive is a user-friendly source of data on educational performance and equity by race and class, kindergarten through college. Through this site, users can select, access and compare the state and national data that form the core of Ed Watch reporting.