Communicating the quality of a school system is essential to promoting public trust and demonstrating the effectiveness of leadership, programming, and operational structures. Quality dashboards are emerging as a vital tool to educate stakeholders on district performance.

A quality dashboard is an online data display that offers an at-a-glance look at district and school performance in achievement, finance and other critical areas of focus, and can be used to measure against state and national benchmarks. The ECRA Quality Dashboard is a user-friendly, cost-effective way of displaying a customized profile of your school district's performance. District leaders choose the quality indicators that are important to their internal and external constituencies. These can include but are not limited to the following:

• Student Achievement
• Customer Satisfaction
• District Climate
• Community Relations
• Finance and Resources

The dashboard is flexible and can accommodate a wide variety of factors, giving users a broad picture of a school district's quality. Under each indicator, users can view performance data broken down into detail by school, grade level, and stakeholder group.