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MASSSTATS
- This free web site
provides a service which allows the user to create maps from a single community
to the whole State. You then pick from various categories such as
Education, Demographics, Health, Crime, etc, and finally select from drop down
menus that provide a town to town comparison. They make use of publicly
available data such as the US census, Dept. of Revenue, Dept of Education etc.
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Research and Studies of
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School Matters by Standard and Poor's - Standard & Poor's recently launched their "School Matters" website, which they describe as - "a public source for information and analysis about our nation's public schools. SchoolMatters provides rich information and powerful search and comparison tools to help uncover the stories behind the numbers, and further the discussion about how to improve student performance...Perhaps even more significantly, this project provides easy access to data and analyses to help guide informed decisions on behalf of our school systems and children." The direct link is http://www.schoolmatters.com. |
The Prop 2 1/2
'Diet' -
Recently published in the Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle. Hamilton
resident Rick Sprenkle takes an in depth look at Proposition 2 1/2.
How does a diet of 2.5% increases compare to: Social Security Cost of
Living Adjustments (COLA); The Consumer Price Index; Professional and
Business Salary Growth.
View on the web at the H-W Chronicle;
View and download
the full study with charts
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School District and Town Comparison Study based on
Public Data
Report 1: Selected Eastern
Massachusetts School Districts and Towns Featuring a Profile of Hamilton
and Wenham. This is the first in a series of reports by CSC's
School Study Group.
Click here to view
as a web page.
Click here to view as a PDF file
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Private High School Tuition for
2004/2005 school year.
A school committee candidate
commented recently that many people in our community are concerned that
we are spending so much on our schools, and have asked "are we trying to
create a private school environment, with costs to match?" We did some
research, and the results are provided in a graph which shows tuition
costs at 13 private high schools in the area.
Click here to view as a web
page.
Click here
to view as a PDF file
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Budget
Crisis Persists: FY'05 House Ways and Means Budget Forecast,
by John Rogers, Chairman. This is a PowerPoint
Presentation. Use the back button to return to the CSC web site.
Click here
to view as a PDF file
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The Boxford School Committee's Committee for
Academic Excellence (CAE) Conducted data-driven research
into a number of areas critical to achieving academic excellence in
their
elementary schools. They compared their schools to the top schools
in the region, including Hamilton-Wenham. There are two reports, done in
1998 and 2000.
http://www.boxfordschools.org/cae.html |
The
Hamilton-Wenham League of Women Voters
Statement of Consensus on Shared
Services
The League recently
completed a year long study on the possibility of combining the Police and
Fire Departments of Hamilton and Wenham. This is the report which they
presented to the community in November 2003:
Click here
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Comparative
Town Data
Hamilton resident
Ann Smith (CSC Committee member) volunteered
to do a research project on behalf of the Hamilton Board of Selectmen.
These spreadsheets, completed in September, list information about
demographics, property taxes, municipal spending, and basic school district
information for Hamilton and 32 towns that either neighbor Hamilton or are
similar in various ways. Click
here
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Study
of Growth Patterns of Some Expense and Revenue Items of the Hamilton-Wenham
Regional School District. For the years 1999 to 2004.
Hamilton resident Richard Boroff (CSC Committee
member) recently completed a study using current and previous HWRSD budgets
provided by Chuck Cooke, the business manager of the district. He has made
this study available through his web site, the direct link to the PDF file
is
http://www.ftmonitor.com/hwrsdbudgetgrowthstudy.pdf
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Report
of the Lincoln Schools K-8 Task Force
This study, completed November 2002 by the Lincoln K-8
Task Force, compared their elementary schools with 7 other elementary school
systems including Hamilton-Wenham:
Lincoln K-8 Report
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