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Table 9.  Percentage of public schools with a formal school improvement plan and percentage of those schools that used various methods to assess the improvement plan, by state: 1999–2000

State  
Methods to assess the improvement plan
Percentage of
schools with formal
school improvement plan
State or
national tests
Parent or
student surveys
Portfolio
products
ALL 50 STATES AND DC88.2 95.7 84.4 62.3
 
Alabama
94.3 98.2 88.6 54.2
Alaska
68.5 93.8 89.4 65.6
Arizona
78.3 97.1 94.2 68.5
Arkansas
93.7 99.0 83.2 65.8
California
89.5 98.1 90.9 78.0
         
Colorado
91.4 98.6 91.4 53.2
Connecticut
78.4 86.6 63.2 72.7
Delaware
91.0 88.6 80.2 68.4
District of Columbia
94.3 96.8 97.6 89.7
Florida
97.9 98.0 95.4 76.5
         
Georgia
99.6 95.6 85.1 51.9
Hawaii
97.9 99.1 87.1 61.9
Idaho
79.3 93.5 83.8 54.5
Illinois
96.8 99.6 76.4 58.4
Indiana
96.1 96.7 85.7 58.7
         
Iowa
92.3 88.3 89.9 56.0
Kansas
99.8 98.4 90.7 73.9
Kentucky
96.5 99.4 94.6 92.0
Louisiana
98.3 96.5 78.2 54.4
Maine
63.7 88.3 77.5 73.6
         
Maryland
98.6 94.5 87.5 73.8
Massachusetts
96.1 85.1 87.5 56.1
Michigan
96.8 95.0 75.9 65.7
Minnesota
68.3 91.5 88.6 55.3
Mississippi
85.7 97.7 90.8 55.7
         
Missouri
94.2 97.4 90.4 58.2
Montana
60.2 90.9 81.0 53.5
Nebraska
93.8 88.1 88.1 44.3
Nevada
90.0 97.1 84.5 46.9
New Hampshire
71.0 95.1 70.6 52.9
         
New Jersey
76.8 86.5 68.0 69.0
New Mexico
94.6 97.4 94.6 67.0
New York
70.4 92.4 78.0 66.9
North Carolina
99.0 97.6 91.4 60.8
North Dakota
99.1 93.0 92.2 47.4
         
Ohio
86.8 96.5 85.4 51.8
Oklahoma
91.3 97.4 83.1 47.1
Oregon
100.0 98.2 87.4 86.4
Pennsylvania
56.9 93.9 60.3 69.6
Rhode Island
100.0 95.5 96.2 56.7
         
South Carolina
92.2 96.8 91.9 41.7
South Dakota
53.3 94.2 83.5 59.2
Tennessee
99.7 94.8 92.0 57.7
Texas
97.3 97.6 80.3 50.6
Utah
81.4 91.8 84.3 59.4
         
Vermont
97.5 100.0 79.5 91.3
Virginia
88.2 95.8 82.1 61.4
Washington
93.7 95.1 72.3 57.6
West Virginia
96.5 99.2 98.8 61.8
Wisconsin
57.7 92.6 84.2 61.4
Wyoming
100.0 99.0 96.4 52.7
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, 1999–2000 "Public School Principal Survey" and "Public Charter School Principal Survey."

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