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School Finance Adjustor #90

Open MSKanin opened 7 years ago

MSKanin commented 7 years ago

What problem are we trying to solve?

The formula used to calculate the redistribution of dollars from "rich" Texas public school districts to "poor" ones is inscrutable. We aim to both shed a light on how this all works, and allow users to reconfigure the distribution themselves.

Who will benefit (directly and indirectly) from this project?

Anyone who lives in the State of Texas.

Links to any research/data available/articles

We'll bring the data with us to the meet-up. The Trib has an excellent set of articles on the topic here.

What are the next steps (validation, research, coding, design)?

We've worked up a comprehensive data set that captures all of the information needed to build an interface. Next up: Design.

What help is needed at this time?

We need help coming up with the design of an interface that will be published at AustinMonitor.com.

werdnanoslen commented 7 years ago

@MSKanin can you share the data set (or at least metadata) here so that others can pick up this project more easily? We'd also love to have you back at our next hack night to pitch it again https://www.meetup.com/Open-Austin/

blincoe commented 7 years ago

@werdnanoslen @MSKanin All of the files (including data) that are used for this project are in this repo.

werdnanoslen commented 7 years ago

Thanks! Could you please update this project idea every couple of weeks with any updates, so that folks looking for projects to get involved in can stay apprised of the latest status?

werdnanoslen commented 7 years ago

Hi @MSKanin how's this project going? Need any resources or help? Would be cool to see a demo on Heroku we can point folks to when they come to hack nights.

werdnanoslen commented 7 years ago

In addition to state/federal financing, how might participatory budgeting affect this issue? https://github.com/sketch-city/project-ideas/issues/51

anu007 commented 7 years ago

Hello, I am Anu and have a degree in UX Design.I wanted to join the team, Please let me know do you guys need UX Designer(Researcher)?I am open to work on other projects.Thanks.

curbyac commented 3 years ago

Hi, does the problem above still need solving? If so, I am interested in working on this idea.