_ UPDATE: The high school progress reports were released today and can be found on the DOE website. For real data-heads, all of the statistics used to compile the progress reports are available in one spreadsheet. Analysis to come..._

For parents thick in the high-school search process, the applications clock is ticking: Ranked applications are due in early December, with some middle schools setting pre-Thanksgiving deadlines to permit application review and possible revisions. But current progress reports for the city's high schools have yet to be released. If this resource, which DOE Accountability chief James Liebman describes as "a system that people can understand and respond to," is to be useful to parents, the current progress report scores should be made public, and soon.

"The schools have them," said Peter Vaccaro, Liebman's second at DAA, adding that DOE will release the progress reports "probably some time this week."