Acknowledgments

Much of the work for this report was performed by staff at the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI), which is funded by NCES and composed of staff from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and a number of partner organizations. The authors would like to acknowledge the following individuals from ESSI for their assistance with analysis, editorial comments, and guidance: Martin Hahn, Pia Peltola, and Sandy Eyster of AIR; and Nick Gaviola of Quality Information Partners, Inc. Graciela Thomen of Sevatec, Inc. produced figure 1. The authors would also like to recognize the work of the U.S. Census Bureau, Governments Division, in collecting and processing the data used in this report. Finally, the greatest debt is owed to the state Common Core of Data coordinators who provided the data presented in this report.