Media: GIS Mapping For Better Schools

Social justice advocates are increasingly making use of GIS mapping to make their case and get changes made.  This much I learned from this Miller McCune article by Bob Burtman (GIS Mapping Shows What Discrimination Looks Like) which shows how useful the maps can be -- in no small part because of their fancy simplicity. 

The use of GIS mapping apparently includes tracking where good schools are and aren't.  Burtman tells me that Ann Joyner with the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities has a project focusing on Wayne County, NC.  Another name I got from Burtman is John Kim of the Healthy City Project in LA. But that's all I know. 

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[alexander]

joyner tells me that GIS was used by the NAACP to undergird a Title VI complaint to the US Justice Department against the Wayne County NC school board and that, ccording to Tom Perez, asst. attny gen'l for civil rights, a letter from the justice department about that complaint should be issued any day now.