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The New York State Report Card is an annual public report from NYSED, required under ESSA, that covers state, district, and school performance. It includes accountability statuses,…
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…
Test scores measure a narrow slice of student performance in tested subjects. They do not capture school climate, safety, access to advanced coursework, arts, counseling, or the…
Charter and district schools are both public, tuition-free, and open to all students, but they differ in who runs them, how they enroll students, and who can…
A single rating or test score compresses different subjects, student groups, years, and assumptions into one number that looks more certain than it is. A better comparison…
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…
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