1. Senior Data Analyst
Office of the State Superintendent of Education
Associate
Collaborative Communications
Tommy Shen Chris Given
Assembling Education Data

2. DRIVING FACTORS

3. DRIVING FACTORS
DISTRICT OF CHOICE

4. 44%
28%
28%
In-boundary DCPS
Out-of-boundary DCPS
Public charter schools

5. DRIVING FACTORS
DISTRICT OF CHOICE

6. DRIVING FACTORS
DISTRICT OF CHOICE
OPEN DATA DEMAND

8. DRIVING FACTORS
DISTRICT OF CHOICE
OPEN DATA DEMAND

9. DRIVING FACTORS
DISTRICT OF CHOICE
OPEN DATA DEMAND
DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

10. DC STATEWIDE LONGITUDINAL
EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM

12. ~2012

13. CHALLENGES

14. CHALLENGES
FRAGMENTATION

15. CHALLENGES
FRAGMENTATION
ENTITY MANAGEMENT

16. CHALLENGES
FRAGMENTATION
ENTITY MANAGEMENT
DIFFICULT EXTRACTION

18. DESIGNING THE SOLUTION

19. DESIGNING THE SOLUTION
CENTRAL REPOSITORY

20. DESIGNING THE SOLUTION
CENTRAL REPOSITORY
FLEXIBLE DATA ARCHITECTURE

21. DESIGNING THE SOLUTION
CENTRAL REPOSITORY
FLEXIBLE DATA ARCHITECTURE
CONTINUOUS PUBLIC UPDATES

23. 44%
28%
28%
In-boundary DCPS
Out-of-boundary DCPS
Public charter schools

24. >200 schools

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

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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…

30. GOALS

31. GOALS
ACCESIBLE TO ALL

32. GOALS
ACCESIBLE TO ALL
LINKING DATA TO ACTION

33. GOALS
ACCESIBLE TO ALL
LINKING DATA TO ACTION
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

35. DEMO

36. TIP OF THE ICEBERG

38. LearnDC.org
Web layer

39. LearnDC.org
Web layer
LearnDC Data
API layer

40. Your App Here
LearnDC Data
API layer

41. LearnDC Data
API layer
JSON Archive — Available now
Your App Here

42. LearnDC Data
API layer
JSON Archive — Available now
Fully Featured Public API — Expected 2014
Your App Here

43. BENEFITS TO OSSE

44. BENEFITS TO OSSE
BOLSTERED CAPABILITIES

45. BENEFITS TO OSSE
BOLSTERED CAPABILITIES
DRIVING CONVERSATIONS

46. BENEFITS TO OSSE
BOLSTERED CAPABILITIES
DRIVING CONVERSATIONS
VALUE OF OPEN SOURCING

47. BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY

48. BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY
EQUITABLE ACCESS

49. BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY
EQUITABLE ACCESS
IMPROVED DATA LITERACY

50. BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY
EQUITABLE ACCESS
IMPROVED DATA LITERACY
NETWORK OF OPEN DATA TOOLS