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You can search, view, and print information from states that will help you in preparing policy recommendations, government and research reports, and program planning information.

Types of documents submitted by states include juvenile justice education annual reports and/or educational outcome reports; juvenile justice annual reports, which include recidivism results; special reports and/or studies conducted in juvenile justice education; and states’ educational monitoring standards for juvenile justice education.

Search terms that contain documents, reports and information from various states include:

• Education and Transition Services: Documents include descriptions of various educational services offered to youth in states’ juvenile justice systems and models for providing effective transition services that assist youth with community reintegration through returning to school and/or gaining employment.
• Monitoring/Evaluation Standards: Documents include education standards and requirements used by states and organizations to effectively monitor services in juvenile justice facilities.
• Education Program Monitoring/Evaluation Results: Reports include state and facility level results from education program monitoring and/or evaluation.
• Highly Qualified Teachers: Documents include teacher evaluation tools, state teaching requirements, and reports on the number of qualified teachers working in juvenile justice systems.
• Recidivism: Studies that report national, state, and facility level recidivism results for juvenile justice institutions. Recidivism methods and definitions vary widely from state to state.
• Post-Release Employment: Studies that report employment findings of juveniles released from commitment facilities. Some studies determine the effect that employment has on recidivism.
• Post-Release Education: Studies that report return to school or continuing education findings of juveniles released from commitment facilities. Some studies determine the effect that continuing education has on recidivism.
• Population/Demographics: Documents contain graphs and tables of descriptive demographics of juvenile justice youth in various states.
• Education Performance while Incarcerated: Reports and studies include educational outcomes and academic measures of youth while incarcerated including high school and GED rates, pre- and post-testing results, grade promotion, etc.

If you would like to submit a research report or other document on juvenile justice education from your state or if you have questions regarding the clearinghouse, contact George Pesta at the FSU Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research, gpesta@fsu.edu