Appendix C
Contact Information for State
Web Sites Telephone Numbers Arizona
http://www.ade.state.az.us
Dept. of Education (602) 542-3111 Arkansas
http://arkedu.state.ar.us
Dept. of Education (501) 682-4475 California
http://www.cde.ca.gov
Accountability Assistance (916) 657-3745 California
http://www.cresst.org/index1.htm
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student
Testing (CRESST) (310) 206-1532 Colorado
http://www.cde.state.co.us
Dept. of Education (303) 866-6600 Colorado
http://www.ecs.org/
Education Commission of the States (ECS)
(303) 299-3600 Connecticut
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/
Dept. of Education (860) 566-5677 Delaware
http://www.doe.state.de.us
Dept. of Education (302) 739-460 District of Columbia
http://www.k12.dc.us
District of Columbia Public Schools (202) 724-4222
District of Columbia http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs
(NCELA)
(202) 467-0867 or (800) 321-6223 District of Columbia
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
National Center for Education Sta- tistics (NCES)
(202) 502-7300 Florida
http://www.firn.edu/doe/index.html
Dept. of Education (850) 245-0505 Georgia
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us
Dept. of Education (404) 656-2800 Hawaii
http://doe.k12.hi.us/
Dept. of Education (808) 586-3230 Idaho
http://www.sde.state.id.us/Dept/
Dept. of Education (208) 332-6800 Illinois
http://www.isbe.state.il.us
Quality Assurance Office (217) 782-2948 Indiana
http://www.doe.state.in.us
Dept. of Education (317) 232-0808
Web Sites Telephone Numbers Iowa
http://www.state.ia.us/educate
Dept. of Education (515) 281-5294 Kansas
http://www.ksbe.state.ks.us
Dept. of Education (785) 296-320 Kentucky
http://www.kde.state.ky.us
Director, Assessment/Accountabil- ity Communications
(502) 564-3421 Louisiana
http://www.doe.state.la.us
Dept. of Education (504) 342-3602 Maine
http://www.state.me.us/educa- tion/homepage.htm
Dept. of Education (207) 624-6620 Maryland
http://www.msde.state.md.us
Dept. of Education (410) 767-0100 or (888) 246-0016 Massachusetts
http://www.doe.mass.edu
Dept. of Education (617) 388-3000 Michigan
http://www.michigan.gov/mde
Dept. of Education (517) 373-3324 Minnesota
http://www.educ.state.mn.us
Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning
(651) 582-8200 Mississippi
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/
ed_accountability/index.html
Dept. of Education, Educational Accountability
(601) 359-2038 Missouri
http://services.dese.state.mo.us
School Improvement Program (573) 751-4426 Montana
http://www.opi.state.mt.us/
index.html
Office of Public Instruction (406) 444-3095 or
(888) 231-9393 Nebraska
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/
Dept. of Education (402) 471-2295 Nevada
http://www.nde.state.nv.us/admin/
super/statebrd/
Dept. of Education (775) 687-9200 New Hampshire
http://www.state.nh.us/doe/
Dept. of Education (603) 271-3494 New Jersey
http://www.state.nj.us
Dept. of Education (609) 292-4469 New Mexico
http://www.sde.state.nm.us
Assessment/Evaluation Unit (505) 827-6524 New York
http://www.nysed.gov
Dept. of Education (518) 474-3852
Web Sites Telephone Numbers North Carolina
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us
Dept. of Public Instruction (919) 807-3300 North Dakota
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us
Dept. of Public Instruction (701) 328-2260 Ohio
http://www.ode.state.oh.us
Dept. of Education (877) 644-6338 Oklahoma
http://sde.state.ok.us
Dept. of Education (405) 521-3301 Oregon
http://www.ode.state.or.us
Dept. of Education (503) 378-3569 Pennsylvania
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/
stateboard_ed/site/default.asp?g=
0&pde_internetNav=%7C
Dept. of Education (717) 783-6788 Rhode Island
http://www.ridoe.net/
Dept. of Education (401) 222-4600 South Carolina
http://www.sde.state.sc.us/
Dept. of Education (803) 734-8815 South Dakota
http://www.state.sd.us/deca
Office of Technical Assistance (605) 773-6119 Tennessee
http://www.state.tn.us/education
Dept. of Education (615) 741-2731 Texas
http://www.tea.state.tx.us
Texas Education Agency (512) 463-9734 Utah
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/eval/
Office of Education (801) 538-7810 Vermont
http://www.state.vt.us/educ
Dept. of Education (802) 828-3135 Virginia
http://www.pen.k12.va.us
Dept. of Education (804) 225-2020 Washington
http://www.k12.wa.us/
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
(360) 725-6000 West Virginia
http://wvde.state.wv.us
Dept. of Education (304) 558-0304 Wisconsin
http://www.state.wi.us/
agencies/dpi
Dept. of Public Instruction (800) 441-4563 Wyoming
http://www.k12.wy.us/index.htm
Dept. of Education (307) 777-7673
In addition to looking at the accountability information on the Web pages of other states, task force members can also use Internet search engines to locate external resource information. By entering terms such as “educational accountability” or “school accountabil- ity” at a search engine prompt, task force members can scan articles and other resources. The following are some Web site addresses that you may find helpful in your search for external accountability information.
• Accountability for Student Learning, Iowa Association of School Boards, http://www.ia-sb.org/services/
ableaccountability.asp
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform, http://www.annenberginstitute.org/
• The Center for Education Reform: About Education Reform, http://edreform.com/reform.htm
• Center for Performance Assessment, http://www.MakingStandardsWork.com
• Council of Great City Schools, http://www.cgcs.org
• “Creating Accountability in Big City Schools,” an article by Linda Darling-Hammond and Carol Ascher, http://eric-web .tc.columbia.edu/mono/UDS102.pdf
• Emerging Student Assessment Systems for School Reform, http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed389959.html
• Focus on Accountability, http://www.aacte.org/
accreditation_issues/focus_basic_value.htm
• Framework for Educational Accountability, http://education.umn.edu/NCEO/Framework/
framework.html
• Issues in Education Websites,
http://www.stf.sk.ca/teaching_res/research/
issues_in_educ.htm
• National Center on Educational Outcomes, http://education.umn.edu/nceo/
• NEA (National Education Association) Issues, http://www.nea.org/issues/
• Occidental College Library,
http://oasys.lib.oxy.edu/search/educational+accountability
• Standards and Assessments, http://www.ccsso.org/
standards-assessments.html
• State Education Accountability Systems, Council of Chief State School Officers, http://www.ccsso.org/introprofile.html
• U.S. Department of Education Publications, http://www.ed.gov/pubs/
• Western Regional Resource Center, Inclusive Large Scale Assessment, http://interact.uoregon.edu/
wrrc/assessmentnew.htm