From time to time, members of the local or national media request information from IDRA for articles or stories. Here, we're providing you with access to the same thorough, detailed responses we give them. Select a topic below.

School Dropouts and School Holding Power
School Funding in Texas
School Reforms in Texas

IDRA can provide information and resources on other topics like:

• High-stakes Testing Linked to Grade-level Promotion (retention) and Graduation
• Access to Higher Education
• Fair Funding
• Using Public Funds for Public Education
• Access to Comprehensible Instruction (includes bilingual education).

Bio and photos of Dr. María "Cuca" Robledo Montecel are available in the online press room. For brief bios of IDRA staff and links to their e-mail, go to IDRA Staff.

Research and statistics are on the IDRA research page. This includes IDRA's annual attrition study of the dropout situation in Texas and IDRA's national study of effective bilingual schools. Four of our research studies are available online in PDF format:

• Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs in Texas - What is Known; What is Needed
• Missing: Texas Youth - Dropout and Attrition in Texas Public High Schools
• Failing Our Children - Finding Alternatives to In-Grade Retention
• Students for Sale - The Use of Public Money for Private Schooling

Articles from the IDRA Newsletter are posted online under IDRA Newsletter.