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If your district wants a better return on its investment
in SARCs, why not aim for both compliance and effective communication?
We have eight years' experience in helping parents "get it"
and in helping your staff lighten their workload. We take care
of almost all data and writing. Principals benefit from our coaching,
either in our written instructions or in telephone interviews.
Your district staff benefits from having less work and from being
guided through an increasingly complex process.
COMPLIANCE PROFILE. This SARC meets all
of the state and federal legal requirements for school-level accountability
reporting. We gather, explain, and interpret almost all your data,
meeting the
understandability requirements
of state and federal law. We also post your SARCs online to help you meet
the laws' dissemination requirements.
And when you send us the writing your principals provide, and the
modest amount of data your district provides, we are able to publish
your SARCs in a fully compliant form.
TIMING. First galleys are available within
three weeks from the date you provide us with the necessary elements:
principals' writing and a modest amount of data from the district.
This turnaround commitment is, of course, dependent on the CDE's
release of all data elements required to build this report. Given the
CDE's current schedules, the earliest possible date for release of
first galleys is November.
AUDIENCE. This 28-to-36-page report is intended
to be read by School Site Council members preparing for Single School Plans,
board members, journalists, PTA members, parents shopping for schools,
business partners, grant-making organizations, teachers, future teachers
under recruitment, and educators. High school staff also find it
useful when preparing for WASC accreditation reviews. LANGUAGE VERSIONS. Reports are available in English and Spanish.
PRINCIPALS' WRITING AND DISTRICT'S DATA. The full-length SARC
report contains from 1,000 to 2,000 words of principals' writing. Our workbook guides principals through approximately
20 questions; it includes sample writing and explanations of the SARC requirements.
Telephone interviews are available for an additional fee. The only
data we require from the district is related to the Williams requirements
(adequacy of teachers, textbooks, and facilities), SB687 requirements
(school finance and CTE), and a few other factors (high school completion,
etc.).
PRODUCTION STANDARDS. Online versions of these PDF reports
appear in full color. Readers can find definitions for some terms
by means of hypertext links. We provide over 50 links to additional
content for more curious readers. Most of those links are pages on
the CDE Web site. The Williams portion of the full SARC is viewable from links within the document, and as a stand-alone,
Web-accessible reporting module.
PRINTING. Few districts choose to print this report,
preferring instead to post it online. This report is always bundled
with the Fact Sheet, which enables parents to easily find and understand
the facts that matter most to them. If you want printed copies of
this report, we can provide them in one color (black only), two colors (blue
and black), or full color.
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