Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) Data Project

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Hello! We are Alison, Galaan, Katelyn, and Marcus, Computer Science students at Bucknell University. For our final project, we have decided to design a website using civil rights data from the Department of Education's website. We have used the dataset from the 2015-2016 school year. Our goal for this website is for it to be informative and user-friendly for anyone to use. To access the data visualizations, you can click on any of the "explore" buttons on the homepage, or the tabs at the top of this page. The topics we focused on are: Chronic Absenteeism, SAT and ACT, Expenditures, Course Enrollment and more. Enjoy! Click here to access the 2015-2016 CRDC dataset.

Salary Expenditures and Funding

This visualization shows the amount spent for salary expenditures for schools and disctricts across states nationwide. Funding includes federal and state expenditure data. Check to see how funding varies for teachers across the country and how districts in urban or rural areas get support from governments.

National SAT and ACT Participation

This visualization shows the overall number of students who took the SAT or ACT in each state and splits up the number of students by race. Check to see the racial disparity across the amount of students that take the SAT or ACT on a national level.

Chronic Absenteeism in the Nation's Schools

Chronic absenteeism is often defined as when students miss fifteen or more school days in a year. This visualization shows how many students are chronically absent in each state along with how many males and females are absent in each state.

School Support for Students

This visualization shows the number of full time employees hired by public schools in each state. Because not every school district has the same budget and resources, we also show the number of employed teachers, nurses, and counselors by district to compare the number of support systems the students have in each school district in every state.

National Advanced Math Enrollment

These visualizations represent the amount of students who were enrolled in Algebra 2 and the amount of students who were enrolled in Advanced Math by gender organized by state. We wanted to view these variables to explore a potential gender bias in advanced math classes.