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PRIVATE SCHOOL Governance Information

U.S. Department of Education Executive Assistant to the Secretary Office of Private Education

The following pages represent acompilation of private school governance data excerpted from an official survey recently conducted by the Florida State Department of Education (completed in 1980-足81), and from research conducted by the Education Commission of the States.

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58 510 1)3 3,165 260 367 87 1,203 366 136

3,212 59,313 17,247 434,150 40,000 89,202 23,202 207,511 80,686 34,301 B00< ' >>> 353,152"'" 80,055 54,192 28,330 75,181 143,121 12,000 126,172 108,544 204,020 90,919

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TOTAL Number of Private Schools

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583,873 56,023 10,305 249,454 25,440 406,485 29,075 54,047 12,883

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9,253 63,983 54,000+ 4,930 163,251 4,000

PRIVATE SCHOOL REGULATIONS FACTS • 9 states have N O state accreditation, approval, or licensure regulations for private schools: Cal ifo rn a i Oelaware Florida

Massach usetts Minnesota Mississippi

New Mexico South Carolina Wisconsin

• 23 states have voluntary accreditation, approval, or licensure: Aiabama Arizona Colorado Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana

Iowa Kansas Louisiana Mississippi Montana New Jersey North Carolina

Oklahoma Oregon Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia • Wyoming

• 13 states have mandatory teacher certification.

-­ 6 not enforced or have special exemptions.

-­ 13 states have NO_ certification process for private school faculty.

• New York, South Dakota, West Virginia and Illinois have mandatory accreditation programs.

• 11 states do not have the reporting capabilities by which they can provide private school enrollment data.

Alabama Florida Idaho Maine

Massachusetts Mississippi Montana New Jersey

Oklahoma Tennessee Utah

OBSERVATIONS 1. Of the 50 states (including Florida) responding to the survey, only 5 ad-­ minister mandatory accreditation programs, and 28 administer voluntary . accreditation programs. However, 3 of the states which require manda-­ tory accreditation only require the accreditation for non-­church related schools. A third state requires accreditation for high schools (grades 9-­12) only.

2. Thirty-­two states administer voluntary and/or mandatory "approval"pro-­ grams, with religiously affiliated schools allowedto seek the "voluntary" approval status in Maryland and Nevada. A similar exemption is allowed to church-­affiliated schools under Pennsylvania's licensure statutes.

3. The terms "approval", "licensure", and "recognition" seem to be some-­ what interchangeable among the respondents.

4. Only 13 states require privateschool faculty memberstobestatecertified.

• (However,' 2 states added thatthe law was "unenforceable".) Another 26 states provide private school faculty with the opportun ity to seek state certification.

-­ 5. Private school advocacy or "umbrella" organizations are established (or are currently being established) in 22 states. A few other states have private school associations which sometimes doubleas "umbrella" groups; however, they are not "official" spokesmen for the private sector. Only 6 of these organizations accredit their member schools -­ with the Con-­ necticut CAPE the soleorganization "officially" recognized bythe state de-­ partment of education. Six of the states have created private school advisory committees which wo rkclosely with the departments of education 6. A number of states reported that they were encountering difficulties in administering state accreditation or approval programs in the newer church-­related schools.

7. A review ofthe material provided us by many of the states indicated that there did not seem to be a "good" definition of private school.

SUMMARY O F FINDINGS Under 50,000 Students

50,001 -足 200,000 Students

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