Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank all those people at the state education agencies and local education agencies who record, track and report these data. Without their efforts there would be no data to report.

The author would also like to thank all of the reviewers and editors who have helped make this publication presentable to the public: Marilyn Seastrom, Jeffery Owings, Lee Hoffman, Stephen Broughman, and Bill Sonnenberg of NCES; Steve Holtzman, Stephen Mistler, Alison Slade and Aparna Sundaram of the American Institutes for Research; and Carol Rohr of Kforce Government Solutions.