OEA Home Page

Welcome to the Office of Educational Accountability
web site!

Here you'll find:

• The 1998 Minnesota Education Yearbook, the OEA's baseline report on the status of K-12 education in the State of Minnesota.
  
• The Best Practices web (parts of this section are under construction), which contains information on current educational practices throughout the State of Minnesota and the nation.
  
• The Faculty Lounge, the OEA's electronic mailing list, your forum for discussion of educational accountability issues and current education practices. You'll also find a page listing other education-related electronic mailing lists.
  
• Links to Minnesota Department of Children, Families, & Learning web pages on  Continuous Improvement Process Data, which provide information on school finance, teaching staff, student background, student participation, and 1998 statewide achievement test results for school districts and schools in Minnesota; and the 1999 Graduation Standards Test Results.
  
• Links to websites where you can find current listings for teaching positions and administrative positions.

Please also visit our page describing the OEA's mission, goals, and functions.

We hope that you will find this web site useful, whether you are a parent, a teacher, a policymaker, or a concerned individual. We welcome your comments, and hope that you will use our Feedback Form to communicate with us.