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A charter school annual report summarizes the school's academic, financial, and organizational performance for a given year. In New York, families should check whether the report covers…
Proficiency rates show how many students meet a performance standard at one point in time. Student growth measures show how much performance changes over time. They answer…
A school improvement plan is the public document in which a school identified for improvement explains what is going wrong, what it will change, and how it…
Graduation rates and dropout rates measure different things: graduation rates track how many students in a cohort finish high school with a regular diploma, while dropout rates…
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