The new Ed-Data website shows information every bit 5-year trends.

Later well-nigh two decades of providing information on the state's K-12 public schools, the Education Information Partnership is overhauling its website with a new look and updated interface that make the data easier to understand, use and share. The new site, a preview of which was released today, also provides fundamental information well-nigh the land's new funding organization.

In a departure from the current Ed-Data website, which primarily provides tables of numbers, the new site offers charts that evidence five-yr trends. By clicking on the nautical chart, the numbers backside the graphs are however easily accessible. The new charts tin besides be printed, downloaded into Excel, copied and pasted into presentations, or shared on social media.

The redesigned Ed-Information site also provides unduplicated pupil counts for English learners, foster youth and students eligible for gratis and reduced-price meals – information that is used past the state'southward new funding formula to calculate additional funds for schools serving those high-needs students.

Ed-Data is maintained through a collaboration of the California Department of Didactics, EdSource and the Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT). It provides fiscal, demographic, operation, staffing and election data for schools, school districts, counties, and the state.

The redesign is expected to exist completed side by side summer, but the partnership wanted to give the public an opportunity to attempt out the new information presentation and functionality and provide feedback to ameliorate future iterations of the site. While the new site is being built, the electric current Ed-Data site, which contains information going back to 1994, volition remain bachelor.

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