The 1999 edition of the School Report Card presents five years of data in most of its categories. Both tests were officially administered for the first time last year. School-level demographic and organizational data. District-level personnel and fiscal information. Report cards are made available in an electronic format, and are available to local school districts, as well as other citizens, via the Internet.
Visitors can also use a query capability to compare districts across other schools and districts.
The reports released today are the fifth to be produced under a 1995 state law enacted by Governor Christie Whitman that standardizes much of the information appearing in the report card and requires its annual distribution. They also represent the ninth time New Jersey has issued a report on its public schools since the first report cards were distributed in 1989. Report cards are produced for elementary and middle schools in regular school districts, schools operated by county vocational and special services districts, and schools in regular districts that reported special education enrollments only for the 1998-99 school year.