AASL Executive Summary: NCES Schools and Staffing Survey, 2011‐2012

Abstract

The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) is a federal entity charged with collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations. The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) collects data from a national sample of schools and school libraries in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. The first survey was conducted for the 1987‐88 school year and subsequent surveys have been conducted in 1990‐91, 1993‐94, 1999‐2000, 2003‐4, and 2007‐8. The most recent survey was conducted in 2011‐12 with a “first look” at this data released in five reports.