For Immediate Release
October 17, 2007
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New York City Redistricting Part of MDR Annual District Update
MDR announces that all of the changes related to the fall restructuring of the New York City Department of Education were finalized in September within the MDR school database. As part of MDR's annual summer update, all school district data, including administrator names, enrollments, and other information, is updated for 100% of the public school districts in the U.S.New York City is the nation’s largest school district, with over 1.1 million students attending 1,500 schools, annual expenditures totaling more than $400 million in instructional materials, and approximately $940 million received in Title I funding last year.
Some of the important changes resulting from the restructuring include:
| • | The previous ten-region structure has been eliminated and replaced by: | |
| • | 32 community superintendents, in 32 districts citywide, who oversee their K-8 schools and report directly to the Chancellor | |
| • | 10 high school superintendents who oversee the high schools as assigned by the Chancellor | |
| • | Instructional support for the schools is now provided by newly created School Support Organizations (SSO) | |
| • | Administrative support for the schools is now provided by newly created Integrated Service Centers (ISC) | |
| • | New positions and titles were created by the New York City DOE to support the new structure | |
In addition to New York City, MDR captured key changes due to reorganizations in several large districts, including Washington (DC), Dallas, Philadelphia, Austin, Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC), Fulton County (GA), St. Paul (MN), Pinellas County (FL), and Prince Georges County (MD). Nationwide, MDR added 1,100 public schools to the file, identified 1,000 schools that closed, and updated information on approximately 5,900 schools that shifted grade ranges prior to the opening of the 2007-2008 school year.
Quality Process
Every year there are thousands of changes in schools, colleges, libraries, and day care centers nationwide, and MDR continuously tracks and verifies these changes to ensure customers get the right information at the right time. For the 2007-2008 school year, 15% of the district personnel, 12% of superintendents, and 13% of principals were new to their jobs when schools opened.
Using unique and comprehensive collection methods and state-of-the-art technology tools, MDR’s seasoned research team focuses on tracking and updating changes in the education market throughout the school year. MDR's commitment ensuring that the district and school building information is correct in the fall is supported by a customer guarantee that pays $500 to the first person to identify any public school not in the MDR database.
This attention to quality extends across MDR’s databases, with a recent third-party audit demonstrating that 9 out of 10 of the 4 million+ teacher names on the MDR database are accurate.
Learn More
An MDR Sales Representative can help you find new opportunities as a result of annual changes in schools and districts and can share more information about MDR’s list, email, sales lead, market research, and analytic solutions. Call 800-333-8802 for a consultation.
Visit www.schooldata.com/mdrNYCredistricting_Details.asp for more details about the NYC redistricting changes.
