The Public School District Finance Peer Search lets you compare any U.S. school district’s revenue and expenditures per student with peer districts and with national and state averages.

If you’re feeling put upon you should read this 37-year old memo to a new hire at the St. Petersburg Times. You can’t fault her new boss for not communicating expectations.

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Here’s a list of 117 blogs by industry analysts.

Standard & Poor’s has an impressive site gathering information on U.S. schools called SchoolMatters. It offers school-by-school data on test scores, race and ethnicity, disabilities, poverty, teacher experience, class size and much, much more. You can search by school, district, name, city, state or zip, compare whichever schools you want and download the data as an Excel spreadsheet. Thanks to Al Cross of the Institute for Rural Journalism & Community Issues for telling me about it.

A proposed Army sexual assault database reported here previously is generating opposition in Congress and among advocacy groups.

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