REPORTS

See home page (yellow and orange blocks) for links to reports immediately available in pdf or html formats. Most reports are also available through ERIC (the Education Resources Information Center of the U.S. Department of Education). Go to "www.eric.ed.gov" and enter "Educational Priorities Panel" or the specific name of the report in the search field.

Most Requested:

Checkerboard Schooling:
How State Aid Affects High Minority School Districts in New York State
Looks at the way minority students are shortchanged by state aid. (technical) 1999

Beating the Odds:
High-Achieving Elementary Schools in High-Poverty Neighborhoods
Looks at the successful practices of 14 principals in very low-income communities in New York City 1999

Getting off the List:
School Improvement in NYC
This is a study of 10 public schools that were placed on the State Education Department’s list of low-performing public schools that improved sufficiently to be removed. 1996

Smaller is Better:
First-hand Reports of Early Grade Class Size Reduction in New York City Public Schools
Teacher and principal accounts of the implementation of the first year of the class size reduction initiative. 2001

Current Reports

Capital Promises: Why NYC Children Don't Have the School Buildings Tehy Need  2007

Checkerboard Schooling III: Suburban Districts Educating African-American and Latino Students
A report to the Black, Latino & Hispanic Legislative Caucus on School Aid, Wealth Measurements & Student Achievement  2004

Castles in the Sand: Why School Overcrowding Remains a Problem in NYC
2002 Extensive charts on costs and building capacity in  elementary schools.

Getting It Right:
An Assessment of Several Methods for Calculating Regional School Costs Across New York State
EPP's newest report examines various cost index proposals and explains why New York State's school aid formula should be changed to account for the differences in cost across the state. 2002

The Regressive Effect of STAR
This $2 billion a year program is really a tax shift, not tax relief. Are state taxpayers subsidizing affluent school districts in New York State? 2001

Building Aid Shortchanges the Big Cities:
The Distribution of Building Aid to New York State School Districts, 1992-1999
A 7-year picture that shows that Building Aid works for independent school districts, but not New York's big five cities. 2001

Checkerboard II
This report explains why a regional cost index should replace dysfunctional tax effort formulas in New York State state school aid. 2002

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Past Reports 1981-1995

Most older EPP reports are available only through ERIC (the Education Resources Information Center of the U.S. Department of Education). Go to "www.eric.ed.gov" and enter "Educational Priorities Panel" or the specific name of the report in the search field. Columbia Teachers College Library and the NYC Municipal Archieves also have copies of some reports.
(Data and issues may be dated.)
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1995

• Options in School Finance Reform in New York State
• Swimming Upstream: The First-Year Experiences of Teachers Working in New York City Public Schools

1994

• Public Health Record Keeping in the Schools
• EPP Briefing Sheet on Sharing the Cost of Education
• EPP Briefing Sheet on Maintenance of Effort
• Unequal State Aid for Public Schools
• The State of Learning

1993

• A Guide to Work Rules in the: NYC Public Schools
• EPP Follow Up to EPP Briefing Sheet on Bilingual Ed
• Equity in the Funding of Public Elementary and Middle Schools in New York City (4 volumes)
• EPP Briefing Sheet on Controls in the Bureau of Supplies of the Board of Education

1992

• EPP Briefing Sheet on Bilingual Education
• EPP Briefing Sheet on Special Education

1991

• Spanish Language Citizens Guide to the NYC School Budget (free)*
• High School Admissions: A Question of Choice?

1990

• Budget Briefing 1990: A Graphic Review of the Decade in New York City Schools
• Hanging In: A Study of Student Credit Accumulation in High Schools

1989

• Building Schools for Student Success
• The Fourth "R": Rethinking Remediation in the Middle Schools

1988

• Cleaning Up Schools -Time for a Change ($3)
• Services to L.E.P. Students in New York City Public High Schools
• A Fiscal Review: Guidance Services in the Middle Schools
• Nowhere to Turn: The Crisis in Middle School Guidance and Support
• High School Summer Programs — 1988 update
• Small Change: The Comprehensive School Improvement Program

1987

• Some Like It Hot: Expanding Summer School in New York City
• Measuring Student Progress
• Building for the Future: Will our Vocationals Be Ready?
• Services to Limited English Proficient Students in the NYC Public Schools
• A Teacher for the Apple: Why NYC Can’t Staff its Schools

1986

• First Steps Toward Fairness: High School Funding 1985-86
• Extra-Curricular Activities: In New York City High Schools
• 1986 Early Registration in the High Schools

1985

• Schools and Communities as Partners: When Johnny Can’t Read Who Can Help?
• In Short Supply: A Study of the Purchasing of Supplies and Equipment in the NYC Public Schools
• Lost in the Labyrinth: NYC High School Admissions
• School Libraries...No Reading Allowed
• Ten Years of Neglect: The Failure to Serve Language-Minority Students in the NYC Public Schools

1984

• Closing the Gap: State Aid for Vocational Education, 1984 Update
• Unprepared for P.R.E.P.: A Study of the Implementation of the Program to Raise Educational Performance in New York City’s High Schools, Fall 1983
• Rebuilding Our Schools: Management of the NYC Board of Education, Division of School Building Repair Program 1983

1983

• The High School Enrollment Slide: Problem or Opportunity?

1982

• NYC Local Tax Revenue Projections, FY 1983
• State Aid for Vocational Education: A Study in Equity
• Learning to Work: A Study of Vocational Programs in the NYC Public High Schools

1981

• Special Education Funding: A Story of: Broken Promises

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