North Carolina Business Leaders for Education
Project Title
For the development of a data visualization tool that allows users to view school-level outcomes in relation to school-level per-pupil spending
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Leveraging education resources—time, money, people, and technology—in different ways can create more personalized learning environments and improve student outcomes. In the current landscape, education stakeholders frequently make decisions about how (and how much) money should be spent, but rarely are these decisions informed by the relationship between per-pupil spending and student outcomes at the school level. BEST NC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of business leaders committed to improving North Carolina’s education system through policy and advocacy, and they are partnering with Decision Sciences to create a tool that will help education stakeholders to make more informed decisions about school spending. Corporation funds will support BEST NC to develop an interactive file that maps per-pupil spending to per-pupil outcomes at the school level, allowing users to begin thinking about resource allocation in ways that maximize student outcomes. This tool is intended to become public-facing.