Standard & Poor’s Announces New Release Date for School Evaluation Services

As you are aware, Standard & Poor's delayed the public release of its School Evaluation Services web site for Pennsylvania due to the tragic events of September 11, 2001.  Standard & Poor's headquarters, which house the School Evaluation Services staff and operations, are located just a few blocks from the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. Standard & Poor’s is indeed grateful to report that its entire staff is safe.

NEW DATES

The new launch date of the School Evaluation Services is Wednesday, October 3, 2001.  One of the regional presentations that could not be completed as originally planned has also been rescheduled: 

FEEDBACK FROM SCHOOL OFFICIALS

Standard & Poor’s have received many thoughtful and constructive comments from school officials during the S&P Observations report preview period. As a result these clarifications and adjustments to certain key data items have been incorporated. These items will be identified in a subsequent communication from Standard & Poor’s prior to the October 3 launch date.

PLEASE NOTE:

S&P’s School Evaluation Services (SES) will not be available to the public until the evening of October 3, 2001. Data on every school district in the state will go live at that time. The information can be found at www.ses.standardandpoors.com.

SES does not rank or rate schools. The publicly accessible SES web site features Standard & Poor’s written reports assessing the strengths, challenges and risks for each school district in Pennsylvania, along with a wide array of supporting data.

SES data for the state of Michigan was released in late May, and is currently accessible on the web site.