Years later, the special education division acquired still another system to track disabled students, complying with a court order, the officials said.

A computer network to track foreign students is expected to be doing the job early next year.

Even some educators still track students for a technical education.

We've tracked students who'd been invited to join the program, but who chose to go to elsewhere.

The change would also allow federal officials to track individual students as they journey through the higher education system.

But by another, more sophisticated calculation that tracks students through all four years, the rate is 22.4 percent, up from 21.8.

The data released yesterday tracks students who began high school in September 1997 and were supposed to graduate this year.

And it allows teachers to track students over the years, which all studies show is very beneficial to education.

This allows teachers to track individual students and address many of their questions.

But under new procedures, city officials say they will be better able to track and categorize students who leave the system.