by Jennifer Lash - Scripps Howard Foundation WireFor parents wanting to know how their school compares with others, come summer, that information will be just a click away.
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Card Credit Mobile Service January 28, 2004 (SHFW) Washington - For parents wanting to know how their school compares with others, come summer, that information will be just a click away.A new Web site, launched at a news conference Thursday, features school, district and state data that can be accessed by parents, educators and policymakers. The information on the site is required to be publicly available by the No Child Left Behind Act."This is about giving people the tools to improve their schools," said Tom Luce, National Center for Educational Accountability founder and chairman. "Data is not the end of a process. It's the beginning of a process to improve."
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Credit Public Service Union The U.S. Department of Education and the Broad Foundation are providing funding for the first two years of the site, $54 million, said Eli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundation. After that, the cost of updating the site should be less, and he said he hopes the states will help pay for it.
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Center Credit Service Union Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, D, said the state thought about doing similar research, but it was "wonderful when we found out someone else was going to come in and pay for it."
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Credit Report Service Secretary of Education Rod Paige noted that public schools will always be the "heavy-lifter" in education and the data should help them improve.
Blogspot Com Christian "I've never accepted the premise that the public school system as constructed now cannot compete," Paige said."There's an appetite for this," Luce said. "For example, say there's a teacher at a school in Virginia with a large Latino population. They can look at a school in San Antonio and see how it is achieving the results that count."
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