Little information exists about the children living in families facing foreclosure. Having well-grounded analysis raises the profile of how the crisis is affecting children and spurs local conversations about how communities can minimize the negative effects. To inform national and local policy, NNIP launched a cross-site project supported by the Open Society Foundations and Fannie Mae on the effects of foreclosures on the residential and school mobility of school-age children.
Eight partners were selected through a competitive process to participate in the initiative (see partners listed on the right). The project utilized the work of Charlie Bruner (Des Moines) who developed a School Readiness Resource Guide and Toolkit. Its materials were organized around a recognized comprehensive framework to address school readiness, the Ready Child equation.
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York)
2011
The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and NYU's Institute for Education and Social Policy have been awarded a grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This work follows up on the research they completed as participants in the NNIP cross-site project on Foreclosures Effects on Children, funded by the Open Society Foundations.
The Ochs Center, formally known as the Community Research Council (CRC), in Chattanooga, TN provided support for the development of Hamilton County’s Reading Initiative.4 At the request of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, the CRC produced a report with a demographic overview of the county, a discussion of demographic factors that may affect reading capacity and detailed data related to pre-school and K through 3 interventions in the county.
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
New charter schools in Baltimore relied heavily on data provided by BNIA to develop their school proposals. A group in the Patterson Park neighborhood asked BNIA in 2003 for help assembling demographic data about the neighborhoods surrounding the park. BNIA provided them with information about the age of children in the neighborhood that was used to estimate the number of children from the neighborhood that would be likely to access a new school. The analysis included data on test scores and enrollment in nearby schools.
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
In late 2010, the Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Unified School District, in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, launched a bold new initiative aimed at addressing the disparities in educational and social outcomes for African American males in Oakland. This six-year initiative has been established with a set of seven key goals that reflect the massive disparities faced by young black males in our city and a set of strategies aimed at improving those outcomes and eliminating most disparities within six years.
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African American Male Achievment Initiative (AAMAI)
(Inactive) Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (Philadelphia)
February 2012
Metropolitan Philidelphia Indicators Project released their most recent policy brief on charter school locations and falling enrollment in traditional public schools.
On May 30th at 10am Pacific, Urban Strategies Council and the Oakland Unified School District will be hosting the first of four webinars focusing on this insightful new research on the inequities faced by African American Males and the efforts underway to eliminate these disparities in education outcomes.
InfoWorks is a collaborative effort between the Rhode Island Department of Education and The Providence Plan. The InfoWorks site is designed as user-friendly, easily accessible resource for anyone interested in Rhode Island's schools. Available data includes achievement results, demographics, funding, and opinion data.
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is currently no charge for these products, but users are asked to register and let us know how they use our work. Children's Optimal Health works to improve operations, impact policy, engage the community and support research to improve the health and well-being of all children in Central Texas.
CRP and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute are partnering to conduct research on student mobility in Ohio. This first-of-its-kind research, to be completed by fall 2012, will analyze Ohio Department of Education K-12 student-level records over three school years to provide a picture of student mobility for each Ohio public school district and building and public charter school, with in-depth analysis for the largest urban areas and large statewide e–schools.
Funded by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the Immigration Study, "Understanding the Impact of Immigration in Greater New Haven," examines patterns in immigration in the Greater New Haven and Connecticut area over the past few decades, as well as the impact of immigration on the region's economy and civic life. Compiling data from state and federal sources as well as local surveys, the report serves as a public resource and data compendium on the issue.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
September 2, 2014
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As part of the Club’s Friday Forum series, Sheila Martin, director of the Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies (GPP’s parent organization) will join a panel of three Portland-area school district superintendents – Carole Smith (Portland), Don Grotting (David Douglas) and Karen Gray (Parkrose) – to present and answer questions on racial justice in Portland-area schools.
Building on the findings resulting from a Lead Technical Studies grant in 2011, ProvPlan, the RI Department of Health, and Brown University have developed a second Lead Technical Studies project scope that extends their current model to use secondary data to assess the effectiveness of lead hazard control activities and regulations.
EastPoint PaCT (Promise and Choice Together) is a group of coordinated initiatives working to transform and revitalize the EastPoint neighborhood, a near-eastside area with a rich history and tradition. Among others, PaCT work includes the US DOE-funded Eastside Promise Neighborhood, the US HUD-funded Wheatley Choice Neighborhood, the US DOJ-funded Public Safety Enhancement initiatives attached to Promise and Choice, the Annie E.
SA2020 is a community visioning and collective impact initiative focused on 11 cause areas. CI:Now collects and analyzes the data to report indicators of progress in these areas, also working to shed light on critical disparities by race/ethnicity, gender, age group, and neighborhood.
CI:Now is developing the CommunityViewer integrated data system, which brings together “people data" and “place data" from public and private sources to inform early intervention, planning, intervention monitoring, and evaluation and research. More information about CommunityViewer is available here.
