In continuation of our discussion of the new graduation and college readiness data from the New York State Department of Education, today we’d like to share an interactive map with you. If you’ve missed our previous posts, be sure to catch up on the conversation … Read More & Comment
Category Archives: Issue Infographics
Whatever happened to class size?
TRUE CONFESSION: I used to be a teacher. I taught adults, not children, but I do like to think that my skills as an adult educator, on occasion, paralleled the skills of today’s school teachers. For example, I could easily … Read More & Comment
Father’s Day Facts [Infographic]
With Father’s Day coming up on June 15th, we want to share a fun infographic with you about Westchester County dads and their children. Some of you are thinking, “Oh no! Father’s Day is this week? I completely forgot!” Well, let … Read More & Comment
All School Districts in Westchester County passed their 2014-15 budgets. But did anybody vote?
School District administrators most likely breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday morning as election results rolled in; all school districts in Westchester County successfully passed their proposed school district budgets for the 2014-15 school year. However, voter participation rates* throughout … Read More & Comment
Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility
We recently held a town hall meeting in Mount Kisco to discuss the New York State Raise the Age campaign. New York is one of only two states in the country that still process 16- and 17-year-olds in the adult criminal justice system … Read More & Comment
Maternal and Infant Well-Being
This interactive map shows: Birth Rate by Municipality for the years 2006-2009 the percentage of mothers that received delayed prenatal care, which means either prenatal care starting in the second or third trimester or no prenatal care at all) age … Read More & Comment
Test Score Comparisons for Grades 3 and 8
Spring is coming.
For most people, spring means trees and flowers and chirping birds [Ed. Bonus point for you if you immediately recognize the reference.] For children in school, spring also means the impending arrival of state-mandated tests.
When the English Language Arts and Math test scores for New York came out last August, many people were shocked by the dramatic drop in pass rates for many schools across the state. This drop was the largely attributed to the decision to align test results with Common Core standards.
We created this map to explore Read More & Comment
