Economic development efforts depend heavily on an educated workforce. This section provides information on primary, secondary, and postsecondary educational institutions in the SEAGO region. Although debate is ongoing regarding the best methods to evaluate the quality of education, certain factors such as test scores and teacher student ratios are widely regarded as indicators of educational achievement and individual attention received by students, respectively.
The dollar amount spent per pupil is an indicator of the ability and willingness of the state and districts to fund quality education, and the amount spent in the classroom is widely regarded as an indicator of focus on classroom instruction.
Arizona Learns, a program within the Arizona Department of Education, evaluates each Arizona school and assigns a rating with respect to the school‘s ability to meet or exceed the Arizona Standards of Education. The ratings include: excelling, highly performing, performing plus, performing, underperforming, and failing to meet academic standards. Ratings are issued each fall term for the previous year.
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