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Governor:Dave Heineman
Commissioner of Education:Roger Breed
Quality Counts state grade:C-
Pre-K-12 enrollment:298,500
Number of school districts:256
Number of public schools:1,096
Number of public school teachers:22,345
Unadjusted education spending per student:$11,460
Percent minority students:29.2%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:42.6%
Percent of students with disabilities:14.8%
Percent of English-language learners:6.7%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:39.4%
8th grade math:32.8%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:36.3%
8th grade reading:34.8%

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The exams will coexist with Nebraska's unique patchwork of district-level assessments.
June 5, 2007 - Education Week (Web)
After first rejecting the state’s approach outright, federal officials now say it is nearing compliance.
February 20, 2007 - Education Week
Despite resistance, the Cornhusker State counts on its local assessments to meet federal mandates for school accountability.
February 20, 2007 - Education Week
Voters in some states didn't show a lot of generosity toward schools as they voted down measures that would have provided more funding for education in Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, and Ohio. But proposals in three states that had the potential to restrict spending on schools-the idea known as a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights-were rejected, early returns showed.
November 8, 2006 - Education Week (Web)
A controversial state plan to break up the Omaha, Neb., public schools into three districts, largely along racial and ethnic lines, and join the entire metropolitan area in one united “learning community” has hit a major roadblock.
September 26, 2006 - Education Week
The nation’s best-known civil rights group has jumped into the fray over a controversial Nebraska law that would divide the 45,000-student Omaha school system into three separate districts, largely along racial and ethnic lines.
May 23, 2006 - Education Week
Following the approval of legislation that would divide the city's public school system into racially and ethnically distinct districts, many Omaha community members and leaders last week expressed a mix of outrage, confusion, and disbelief.
April 25, 2006 - Education Week
Nebraska lawmakers last week approved a hotly debated bill to break up the Omaha Public Schools—largely along racial and ethnic lines—under a plan that critics say amounts to state-sanctioned segregation and that likely will face a legal challenge.
April 14, 2006 - Education Week
A plan by the Omaha Public Schools to expand the district’s boundaries and annex schools and land within city limits from three neighboring suburban districts has triggered anger and controversy, straining relations among school officials and compelling the state governor to jump into the fray.
August 30, 2005 - Education Week
Politics Page Recent debates over the future of hundreds of Nebraska’s smallest rural schools—not to mention the continuing tiffs over school finance—show that the state's unicameral, nonpartisan way of doing business can have its drawbacks.
May 5, 2004 - Education Week

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