Learning and Achievement
Assessments
Disaggregations
Accountability
How Rhode Island Classifies Schools
2004 School-Performance Classification:
Elementary |Middle |High

Using Information
State Indicators
Value Added:
Elementary |Middle |High
Attendance and Graduation Rates,
Learning Support Indicators:
Elementary |Middle |High

Safe and Supportive Environments
Students' Point of View:Middle |High
Suspensions

User's Guide: School Report

Ensuring Equity and Adequacy of Fiscal Resources

In$ite Category Structure and Definitions

Includes: Salaries and related employment costs for teachers who interact with pupils face-to-face; classroom, hospital and homebound teachers; cost of third-party instructional services for district students (e.g., advanced college courses or specialized classes provided by another district); the cost of travel for hospital, homebound and itinerant teachers; only the teaching portion of an expenditure for department chairpersons who also teach; driver education teachers if taught during normal school hours, offered without a fee and restricted to students (otherwise code to Extracurricular); music instruction (e.g., band) that is taught during the day as part of the curriculum, and tutoring (e.g., SAT, ESL); school-to-career staff, if doing face-to-face teaching
Excludes: nurse teachers even if face-to-face teaching occurs; school-to-career staff involved in placement (code to Guidance and Counseling); teachers working with classroom teachers (code to Staff Development)

Includes: teachers substituting for other teachers unless the reason is staff development (code to Staff Development)
Excludes: teachers substituting because of staff development; substitutes not in the classroom (e.g., Library, Cafeteria Monitor) (Code as appropriate)

Includes: paraprofessionals who spend the majority of their time in the classroom or with the teacher
Excludes: One-on-one paraprofessionals whose primary responsibility is that of physical attendants (code to Therapists); non-instructional paraprofessionals, aides and graders of student work (code to In-Service, Staff Development and Support)

Includes: technology and software that pupils use; salaries and related employment costs of staff who are dedicated to support technology instruction, pupil-use network management, or computer lab support personnel; expenditures for dedicated telephone lines, maintenance and repair, and service contracts; purchases and/or lease payments for pupil-use computer equipment
Excludes: Technology instruction (code to Face-to-face Teaching); technology instruction of professional and support staff (code appropriately); technology and software for purposes other than pupil-use (code appropriately); printer, paper, ribbons, diskettes, etc. (code to Instructional Materials)

Includes: the cost of instructional materials and supplies; staff dedicated to managing the selection of those materials and supplies including textbooks, paper, lab materials, test forms, workbooks, chalk, markers, maps and charts; all classroom instructional equipment other than pupil-use computer equipment; tests; field trips that are instruction related; equipment used for presentations by master teachers; televisions dedicated to the classroom; equipment used for distance learning instruction; salaries and employment costs of staff that manage classroom materials
Excludes: test-related research and development and the personnel involved in that process (code to Curriculum Development); non-instructional trips (e.g., band, glee club) (Code to Extracurricular); projectors, video players, video-conferencing equipment, TVs mounted in classroom (code to Library and Media)


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