State-Level Reports and Guide

Introduction

• Portraits of state-level school functioning

• Introduction of the Performance Progress lists

Student Characteristics and Achievement

• Profile of RI Public Schools

• Characteristics of students attending school in RI

• 2001 Kids Count

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

Overall statewide assessments results

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• The All Kids Agenda

• 'No Scores' remain high at the high school level

• Students exempt from state exams

Alternate Assessment Proficiency

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Standards-based portfolio assessments tailored to each child

Performance over the past three years

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• General school functioning at a glance

• A lesson learned

Performance Progress

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• 'Improvement' is the new watchword

• The need to come to terms with annual judgments about the schools

• A whopping 58% of all RI schools showed 'no improvement'

• The standards are high

• The future of these lists

Student progress adjusted for "Value-Added"

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Leveling the playing field

• Statistical Modeling

• The value-added lens is most powerful over time

• The relationship between the value-added charts and the Performance Progress charts

Financial Support and Investments

• How much is enough?

• The funding picture statewide

• School aid as tied to property taxes

• 1997's Budget Article 31 and subsequent amendments

Equity: Tax revenue and expenditures: two views

• Property value per student versus district tax rate

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for
   

• Tax capacity and effort

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Equalized accounting

• Urban challenges

In$ite® Data: District level school expenditures

• Per pupil expenditures

• The virtual RI school district

• Average Daily Membership

In$ite Chart #1: Per pupil expenditures including the Other Commitments category

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Quick definitions of the other four major In$ite categories

• Examples of Other Commitments

In$ite Chart #2: Per pupil expenditures excluding the Other Commitments category

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• New Shoreham

• The career and technical programs and schools

In$ite Chart #3: Instruction by Category and Instructional Support

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• More questions than answers

SALT Survey Findings about Parent Contact

• What you are looking at

• What you are looking for

• Parents as school improvement partners

• Computer-assisted home/school contact