Senior Data Analyst Office of the State Superintendent of Education

Associate Collaborative Communications

Tommy Shen Chris Given

Assembling Education Data

DRIVING FACTORS

DRIVING FACTORS

DISTRICT OF CHOICE

44%

28%

28%In-boundary DCPS

Out-of-boundary DCPS

Public charter schools

DRIVING FACTORS

DISTRICT OF CHOICE

DRIVING FACTORS

DISTRICT OF CHOICE OPEN DATA DEMAND

DRIVING FACTORS

DISTRICT OF CHOICE OPEN DATA DEMAND

DRIVING FACTORS

DISTRICT OF CHOICE OPEN DATA DEMAND DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

DC STATEWIDE LONGITUDINALEDUCATION DATA SYSTEM

~2012

CHALLENGES

CHALLENGES

FRAGMENTATION

CHALLENGES

FRAGMENTATION ENTITY MANAGEMENT

CHALLENGES

FRAGMENTATION ENTITY MANAGEMENT DIFFICULT EXTRACTION

DESIGNING THE SOLUTION

DESIGNING THE SOLUTION

CENTRAL REPOSITORY

DESIGNING THE SOLUTION

CENTRAL REPOSITORY FLEXIBLE DATA ARCHITECTURE

DESIGNING THE SOLUTION

CENTRAL REPOSITORY FLEXIBLE DATA ARCHITECTURE

CONTINUOUS PUBLIC UPDATES

44%

28%

28%In-boundary DCPS

Out-of-boundary DCPS

Public charter schools

>200 schools

How Not to Get Your Kid into Kindergarten Playing the DC Public Schools Lottery is a crazy, soul-crushing pursuit.

By Laura Moser

How Not to Get Your Kid into Kindergarten Playing the DC Public Schools Lottery is a crazy, soul-crushing pursuit.

By Laura Moser

Lottery season…breeds a peculiar blend of hysteria, fear, and desperation in us helpless parents forced to participate in it.

How Not to Get Your Kid into Kindergarten Playing the DC Public Schools Lottery is a crazy, soul-crushing pursuit.

By Laura Moser

Lottery season…breeds a peculiar blend of hysteria, fear, and desperation in us helpless parents forced to participate in it.

…hours of online research, endless schleps to evening and weekend open houses, countless more minutes trying out hypothetical commutes, until, inevitably and almost always regrettably, you find yourself trolling the mommy listservs.

How Not to Get Your Kid into Kindergarten Playing the DC Public Schools Lottery is a crazy, soul-crushing pursuit.

By Laura Moser

Lottery season…breeds a peculiar blend of hysteria, fear, and desperation in us helpless parents forced to participate in it.

…hours of online research, endless schleps to evening and weekend open houses, countless more minutes trying out hypothetical commutes, until, inevitably and almost always regrettably, you find yourself trolling the mommy listservs.

Only the most dedicated can put up with this insanely frustrating system. The savvier of these employ elaborate stratagems. …Michelle Martin…acquired a spreadsheet full of school information from a neighbor downtown. She built out the document with even more data and started sharing it on listservs.

How Not to Get Your Kid into Kindergarten Playing the DC Public Schools Lottery is a crazy, soul-crushing pursuit.

By Laura Moser

Lottery season…breeds a peculiar blend of hysteria, fear, and desperation in us helpless parents forced to participate in it.

…hours of online research, endless schleps to evening and weekend open houses, countless more minutes trying out hypothetical commutes, until, inevitably and almost always regrettably, you find yourself trolling the mommy listservs.

Only the most dedicated can put up with this insanely frustrating system. The savvier of these employ elaborate stratagems. …Michelle Martin…acquired a spreadsheet full of school information from a neighbor downtown. She built out the document with even more data and started sharing it on listservs.

For a voice of reason, some parents shell out for time with E.V. Downey, an educational consultant who has made an unexpected career out of advising families about their best public-school options…

GOALS

GOALS

ACCESIBLE TO ALL

GOALS

ACCESIBLE TO ALL LINKING DATA TO ACTION

GOALS

ACCESIBLE TO ALL LINKING DATA TO ACTION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

DEMO

TIP OF THE ICEBERG

LearnDC.org Web layer

LearnDC.org Web layer

LearnDC Data API layer

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LearnDC Data API layer

LearnDC Data API layer

JSON Archive — Available now

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LearnDC Data API layer

JSON Archive — Available nowFully Featured Public API — Expected 2014

Your App Here

BENEFITS TO OSSE

BENEFITS TO OSSE

BOLSTERED CAPABILITIES

BENEFITS TO OSSE

BOLSTERED CAPABILITIES DRIVING CONVERSATIONS

BENEFITS TO OSSE

BOLSTERED CAPABILITIES DRIVING CONVERSATIONS VALUE OF OPEN SOURCING

BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY

BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY

EQUITABLE ACCESS

BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY

EQUITABLE ACCESS IMPROVED DATA LITERACY

BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY

EQUITABLE ACCESS IMPROVED DATA LITERACY NETWORK OF OPEN DATA TOOLS