EDUC 1310: Urban Education

The state agency that oversees primary and secondary public education. Also collects and publishes reports and assessments on individual schools and school districts.

Get snapshot and/or comparative data for major US cities, including demographics, economic, and city financial data.

Create a custom table with fiscal information for selected cities, and one or more fiscal variables, such as revenue streams, expenditures by category, etc. Can also look at school district and county level data.

Aggregates a wide range of data sources, from governments, businesses that incorporate and use government data, civic developers and entrepreneurs who build open data service delivery apps; and citizens. Site can be a bit buggy.

Developed by the Community Development and Policy Studies (CDPS) division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is a data comparison and visualization instrument that can help policymakers and practitioners understand a municipality in the context of peer cities along economic, demographic, social, and housing dimensions.

Mapping tool that focuses on social mobility data, including outcomes such as household income, living in the same neighborhood from childhood through adulthood, poverty rate, hours worked per week, etc.