Comments on: School in Absentia http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2007/02/12/school-in-absentia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=school-in-absentia Mindfulness in the face of challenge. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Every Day I Write the Book « Stop, Drop and Roll http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2007/02/12/school-in-absentia/#comment-63 Every Day I Write the Book « Stop, Drop and Roll Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:27:41 +0000 http://johnknoxwhite.com/?p=50#comment-63 [...] I was happy with the information and analysis SD&R provided on issues like the School Budget (here and here), the Union Pacific RR project to put rail gates across the Park Street Bridge (here, here [...] [...] I was happy with the information and analysis SD&R provided on issues like the School Budget (here and here), the Union Pacific RR project to put rail gates across the Park Street Bridge (here, here [...]

]]> By: Mike McMahon http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2007/02/12/school-in-absentia/#comment-61 Mike McMahon Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:57:08 +0000 http://johnknoxwhite.com/?p=50#comment-61 The challenge with data available on the web is that it collects data from district with data processing systems and therefore the data fields are not similar. In addition, some calculations are approximation. ADA is an example. Since ADA is a ratio of attendance taken at two points of time there can be factors influencing (increasing/declining enrollment) which overstate the numbers. Here is a link to "actual" ADA numbers by school for the past few years. http://mikemcmahon.info/ada.htm The challenge with data available on the web is that it collects data from district with data processing systems and therefore the data fields are not similar. In addition, some calculations are approximation. ADA is an example. Since ADA is a ratio of attendance taken at two points of time there can be factors influencing (increasing/declining enrollment) which overstate the numbers. Here is a link to “actual” ADA numbers by school for the past few years.

http://mikemcmahon.info/ada.htm

]]> By: Mark http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2007/02/12/school-in-absentia/#comment-62 Mark Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:23:57 +0000 http://johnknoxwhite.com/?p=50#comment-62 John, At the Thursday meeting of AEF and ABS at Lum school, David Forbes said that our attendence was better than 93%, like 94 or 95%. He also said we have had campaigns like, bring your kid to school sick and take them home so we get the $ , and in practical reality it's not worth putting more effort into that one. I don't believe any district is getiing 99% attendance., but maybe. John,

At the Thursday meeting of AEF and ABS at Lum school, David Forbes said that our attendence was better than 93%, like 94 or 95%. He also said we have had campaigns like, bring your kid to school sick and take them home so we get the $ , and in practical reality it’s not worth putting more effort into that one. I don’t believe any district is getiing 99% attendance., but maybe.

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