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US schools sell ad space on report cards AAP November 15, 2011 9:07AM FACED with stinging budget cuts, a county school board in Colorado is selling advertising space on report cards to help make ends meet. Jefferson County Public Schools expects to make $US90,000 ($A87,000) over three years from Collegeinvest, a college savings plan, for the 5cm ads on report cards issued by its 91 primary schools. That seems like a drop in the bucket for the school board, which last year slashed its spending by $US40 million in the face of reduced state and federal government support and a...

New report cards have been issued by the Jersey Department of Education - not for students, but for the schools they attend. Report cards for more than 24 hundred public schools are now available at http://education.state.nj.us/rc/. Jersey Education Commissioner Lucille Davy says "this is an opportunity for us to provide a profile of each school- primarily for the public's use- to look and to gauge their local schools educational progress." She says "we see improvements, we see the achievement gap closing in 3rd and 4th grade particularly, in language arts literacy and mathematics as well." Davy says the data also...

<p>MARION, Ind. -- State education officials are urging Indiana's schools to adopt detailed new report cards that track student performance with numbers, not the familiar letter grades.</p> <p>Instead of a letter grade for each subject, a student's progress is charted on a numerical scale from 1 to 3 in different areas of each subject.</p>

Come fall, Gino Vargas and other parents of schoolchildren in Lebanon, Pennsylvania could be getting report cards of their own: The school system's superintendent is proposing that parents be graded on how involved they are in their children's education. Vargas said he cares deeply about his 4-year-old son and has no problem with the proposal, believed to be one of the first of its kind. "If you take care of your kids, it'll show in the report," Vargas said recently as little Dante waited in the car for the trip home from Harding Elementary. "My dad was there for me....