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JULY 2004

Parents Gain New Online Access to Important School Performance Data

Parents in Arizona, Arkansas and North Carolina can now easily review online detailed school performance data for every school in their state to determine how their child’s school compares to other schools and whether they need to take action to improve their school. The School Information Partnership (SIP) announced that student achievement data from all public schools in Arkansas, Arizona and North Carolina are now available online at www.SchoolResults.org.

SIP is an unprecedented public-private initiative between The Broad Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education. SIP’s goal is to improve dramatically the general public’s access to easy-to-understand information about public schools, districts and state academic achievement results. SIP is focused on: Giving parents powerful and comparable information about the performance and demographic makeup of their children’s schools, as well as other schools and districts across their state; Providing educators useful tools to diagnose areas that need improvement and identify other schools from which to learn effective practices; Empowering state and local policymakers with comparative tools and benchmarks to monitor the relative progress of their state’s schools and districts in order to make better informed policy decisions; and Reporting to members of the media critical data to help inform their readers about their local schools and the progress they are making under No Child Left Behind.

“It is exciting to provide this country a truly powerful resource for everyone who wants to know how their school is doing and whether education is improving,” said Mr. Eli Broad, founder of The Broad Foundation. “Now, thanks to the School Information Partnership, people in more than 20 percent of the country can easily access the data that will help them make informed decisions to improve student achievement.”

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said, “Parents, educators and taxpayers will benefit. The web site helps policymakers understand and monitor the progress of the state’s education systems. It enables educators to identify schools with high achievement and focus on the reasons for such achievement. It also helps them focus resources for the schools that need them. Parents can use the tools on the web site to compare their children’s school to neighboring schools or others across the state. Taxpayers can see what their hard-earned money purchases. This is democracy in action, working best with the free flow of public data.”#

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