luke tate: goodafternoon everybody. thank you for beinghere at the white house. i'm luke tate with thewhite house domestic policy council. aden van noppen: aden vannoppen with the office of science and technologypolicy here at the white house. luke tate: and we're part ofthe team that is building the opportunity project.
we're so grateful thatyou're here today for the launch. the work is only goingto go forward from here. the price of admission isthat you're going to be part of that. so we want -- aden's goingto tell you a little bit about the project. aden van noppen:yeah, great. so, as luke said we'rereally excited you guys are
here and we're excited forthe beginning of this work. so i'm aden van noppen as isaid and i lead our work on local innovation, which isbasically taking the tools of tech and innovation andapplying them to the work that we do as anadministration when we work closely with localcommunities. i guess i don'tneed this, huh? and i'm particularly excitedto share this project with you guys because itrepresents a melding of and
a merging of tow majorpriorities of this administration. one is opportunitycreation for all people. the other is using 21stcentury tools as we solve our biggest challenges. and so we've brought thosethings together in this project in collaborationwith a lot of you and we're really excited to kindof launch it forward in partnership with you too.
so this came into beingbecause we realized that federal open data is muchmore meaningful when we do some of the work ofcombining and curating so that the data can reallypaint a comprehensive picture of something thatmatters a lot to people which is access to assetsin their community. and so, we also realizedthat this data is much more meaningful when thingsare built in partnership. so it's really at theintersection of different
life experiences, expertise,when you bring together technologists withcommunity groups with local governments and that'swhat we've done. and it's -- you know, it'sgrounded very much in the president's backgroundas a community organizer. so, in the 1980s when he wasworking with the developing communities project he wasworking to empower people's whose voices weren'tusually heard. and that's a lot of what wethink we can do now with
open data. when we really are groundedin the notion that people are experts ontheir own lives. and that when we work withdata we can encourage that sort of participatorydevelopment of tools. so, two months ago webrought together a combination of 12 softwaredevelopment teams with eight local communities andsubject matter experts and over the last tow monthsthey've been building
user-friendly digital toolsto expose inequality and access to opportunity andhelp many different groups navigate that information. so whether it's communityleaders, local governments, activists, media,policymakers -- and the data itself that we pulledtogether is on a range of things. so proximity to jobs,proximity to transit, environmental toxinexposure, and then you add
in the local data and you'vegot things like parks and where are thegrocery stores. and so, the cities thatwe're been working at -- working with i want togive them a shout out. so it's been baltimore,detroit, kansas city, missouri, new orleans, newyork, philly, san francisco, and washington, d.c. so,thanks to all of you guys who have included your dataand really helped to provide more texture on whatit is that we're doing.
so what you'll see today isa result of those two months but we see that as the artof the possible as luke said, of what we can reallydo with this data and with this spirit ofcollaboration. so, just as excited as weare for you to see those tools we're excitedto see hat's to come. i think luke's going togive a couple of logistical notes. luke tate: yup, so first, wewant to say thanks to the
incredible federal team thatwas part of putting this together and to all thesoftware developers and the subject matter experts whohelped get this project launched. we're so excited thatyou're here today. we want you totweet about it. we want you to tell peopleabout it using #opendata. #opendata. i think we've gotthe wi-fi working.
katherine has shared withyou the info so if you could log in and talk abouttoday's event with #opendata and i think that's it. aden van noppen:yeah, awesome. so, i want to introduce myboss megan smith, the u.s. chief technology officer andassistant to the president. megan -- she really doesn'tneed an intro but i'll just say that megan brings anincredible amount of energy and passion to everythingthat she does.
and she has an ability tosee connections between things that most peopledon't have the ability to see which is why she was sogood at her previous job as the vice president at googlex which if you don't know is the part of google that'seven cooler than the rest of google. but she also brings anincredible amount of heart to everything that shedoes which -- and she's passionate about unlockingthe talent of all people.
and so you combine those twothings and that's megan as the cto of theunited states. so, megan? megan smith: thank you. aden van noppen: yes. (applause) megan smith: hey everybody. it's great to behere with you. this is -- it's so awesomewhen ecosystems come
together and we canstart to get things done. and so it feels like alaunch, it's a launch day. and i wanted to just shoutout; aden mentioned that the group that came togetherinitially to do the initial sprint there's about adozen software companies. are you guys in the house? yes? these are non-profit,for-profit folks. lone of the notions of that,think a little bit about
instead of making a newwebsite -- we might do that, that's an okay thing to do-- but often there's so many people on popular websitescan we add features and other things to thoseand so we just expand the opportunity forpeople in those. also we've got subjectmatter experts and people who really knowthese sectors. people from the sprint teamwho are really working in there. are you here?
no? some people. yes, i hear some people. where -- talk to me a littlebit about which groups have weighed in. so shout out. i heard some peoplesay some things. are you guys in the room? (laughter)
okay, so maybe the subjectmatter experts aren't here. okay. and then -- and then theeight cities that came together. and one of the things thatmaybe as you guys start demoing you'llidentify yourselves. it's so important -- thepresident when he created the cto job that i have andthat our team has -- i think coming out of the electionssaw how data and real time
data and sort of teamworkusing the internet was a real, you know, reallyhelped bring him into the election and he wantedto make sure that the government startedto harness that. and of course in the unitedstates government we already do harness that. in certain ways wewere kind of uneven. so we have the incrediblenasa team, you know, going to pluto this year.
the nih team -- we of coursehave data science and open data. i mean none other thanof course the weather teammates. you know, if you think aboutanybody if you pull out your phone or you're watching thenews at night, you know, up comes this beautifuldata science product. you know, here's theselittle -- it says it's sunny here today, you know, wherethe rain is, where the snow is. anywhere you are physicallyon the planet you can get
this beautiful picture ifyou have digital access that sits on top of thegovernment data, right? and so, this billion-dollarindustry of the weather or the mapping world, you know,sitting on top of u.s. geological survey andall of our mapping data. how do we look at all thedata sets that are out there and take them, kind of dustthem off even if they're open and make themavailable, throw the party with them the way that theweather folks have figured
out to do in the waythat the mapping people. you know, now on top of mapsnot only do we have traffic information, amazing cityplanning, you know, things like esry and being ingoogle maps -- all of these things, the openstreet map teams. but when we have disasterresponse that the teams -- you saw the nepal earthquakewas one of the most extraordinary moments wherei think 150,000 buildings were mapped and 40,000kilometers of road in 48
hours because there was sortof an open platform in data and people collaborating inpeople across the internet. so when we want to team upand there's an urgent need to do that we can do that. and it's in that spirit thatthe opportunity project is here. and so how do we help allamericans have access to the information that's rightaround them and to make the educated decisions that theycould make and really take their communities intotheir own hands as we have
throughout so much of ourhistory but using these new modern tools which look likenot only data but really all of us interconnected usingthe network technologies in the way that we do. so that's really in thisspirit and so a group of our incredible teammates fromcensus, the hud team, some of commerce, thepresidential innovation fellows, a whole group ofpeople, department of labor and others have cometogether to kind of open
this almost as a stage onwhich the developers and the subject matter expertsand experts in the social sciences and the servicedelivery together with the new tech ways are going tobuild out those projects. and i think during thisafternoon we're going to see some of thosebeautiful products. so, i want to bring up ouramazing census director john thompson and i love census. i got to visit recently.
i've always loved censusbecause of the data science there and data science is ateam sport as you're going to hear from djpatil who's the u.s. data chief scientist but,you know, you walk into census and there chiseled upon the wall in the lobby is the -- is the constitutionalmandate for -- male speaker:article 1, section 2. megan smith: yeah, article1, section 2 about how census is going to supportthe equal distribution of
the resources. that's the goal and we'regoing to count ourselves. and in those days peoplerode around with horses and walked around and countedeveryone but now we have really cool new modernways of doing things. and what's so incrediblewith you, director thompson and jeff (inaudible) here,avi's here, you know, your leadership team, thepresidential innovation fellows and all the techteams that are working with
your incredible socialscientists and others. it's to see how you arebecoming the most modern of big data companies, big dataentities, big data service giving government. and so, i'm going to turnit over to you to walk us through a little bit ofthe website but thank you everybody for allof your teamwork. it's the beginning, thepresident's opened 200,000 data sets since thebeginning of the
administration and this isa set that we want to throw the party on and get it tobe something that we are delivering great services,information, and equality so the american peoplecan do their thing. so thank you. john thompson: thank you. thank you. john thompson: so i'm reallypleased to be part of this launch of theopportunity project.
it represents a new way thathe federal government is collaborating with localleaders, technologists, non-profits, the privatesector, and community members to really expand theaccess t o data and provide access to opportunities andto fair housing across the country. the opportunity projectrepresents a groundbreaking collaboration between thewhite house, the census bureau, the departmentof housing and urban
development, the privatesector, and with --and with the cities mentioned before. and it's -- it makesavailable census bureau data primarily in the form of theamerican community survey which i had a lot more timei could talk on about but it's a rich source of localarea demographic data. and more importantly, itallows this data to be combined with other data asyou're going to see, that provides just incredibleinsights and richness.
we've already mentioned whythe project was put together so i won't mention that. but i will say that it'sreally good that we've had such amazing participationfrom these private sector companies, from someexperts like from the urban institute and the censusbureau of course and hud. but -- and from thecities involved. so it's been a truecollaboration. and i'm also pleasedto announce that the
information is now readilyavailable at the census bureau so you can find itat opportunity.census.gov. it's pretty easy to find. if you google it, it popsright up and you can -- it's actually, i have itone my smartphone. i've been lookingat it today. but it's a platform thatlinks this -- few people -- let me show you afew screenshots. so, it'll come uplooking like this.
the opportunity projectand it has three areas -- connect, build, learn more. it's also optimizedfor a smartphone. what you'll see when you goto it under the connect is you'll come to a page thatstarts showing you some of the applications that aregoing to be demoed here today and lets youclick on them and learn. it also has a little boxthat says your application here. it also provides access to atool that we're very proud
of at the census bureaucalled the census, or rather the city sdk or softwaredevelopment kit. and this is a tool thatmakes access to census data and hud data very, very easyfor developers to build applications on. so you'll getthat there too. so finally, i want toconclude -- there's a picture of the city sdk --don't think i should go back. but i'd really like toconclude by thanking our
partners -- hud, the officeof technology and science policy, the domestic policycouncil, the office of management and budget, andmost importantly, i do want to really thank thepresidential innovation fellows that worked on this. as i was telling megan, i'vebeen in government before. i left, i came back and oneof the greatest things i've seen since i came backto government is the presidential innovationfellows program.
i think that it's truly anamazing program and it's brought a lot of really goodtalent into government that wasn't there when iwas here before, so. john thompson:thank you, megan. megan smith: terrific. and, so -- it's awesome tohave this -- these tools now live. and one of the things thatwas interesting, tom kalil and i were out at theconsumer electronic show.
tom leads tech andinnovation in the office of science technology andpolicy and we were hosting different people on stagetalking about inclusive tech -- all kinds of topics,computer science for all, type things, makerspaces, et cetera. and topics where a communityhas to come together it's kind of an allhands on deck piece. things like tech hire whichis the code boot camps to get people into the 600,000jobs that are open
in the country. and one of the colleaguesthat joined us was the cto of seattle. the chief technologyofficer in seattle. and it was so interesting tohear the things that seattle is doing around open datain the ideas of cities. and some of that is in -- isometimes nickname it the plumbing layer, right? so, seattle has a lot ofrain, they've instrumented
their storm drains. and they actually, inaddition to the regular rounds they know if theyhave an overage and they can quickly deploy a truck to goget the water out of the way instead of floodingthe neighborhood. rally fabulous stuff to do. we're seeing that all aroundwhether it's in traffic and that layer, but they also atthe human layer they've been using open data and they'vebeen having gatherings like
hack the commute. a whole group of peoplecome together looking at commuting data and transitdata and what might we do with ride sharing andbicycles and our buses and our public transit anparking and how can we rethink that together as agroup of community together with the data? the other thing was a coupleof the neighborhoods who had less opportunity was comingtogether as a neighborhood
with leaders and hackingon how to bring more opportunity tothat neighborhood. so we're just seeing aground swell, this is just seattle, this one place,but all around the country people are starting toreally come together and one of my favorite things isthat the librarians in seattle are stepping upwith this set of content in addition to books and otherthings, this set of content -- open data.
how can they becomeresources from the librarian for anybody who wants tobecome fluent in this set of content that could have somuch profound impact on your neighborhood and participatewhether it's in more of a coding way or more of avisibility or a design thinking there areother pieces there. so, just so great to seethis stuff coming together. the last thing i'll justmention is up here i think it's a little cut off but atthe top you can see that you
can join and you can join ithink a slack channel and a get hub page and a bunch ofother places for those who want to come participatewith that and if that sounded like a foreignlanguage we'll support people who want tounderstand what those mean and what those areparticipatory places in get hub more where people aresharing open source data and tools and collaborating onthe build of the code in the front end and the usabilityof these products, the kinds
of screens you see. and then on slack channelmore of a conversational place where people aretalking about what they're doing and you could becoming from any area. but i really, it remindsme of a moment with grace hopper. i'm not sure how many peopleknow who grace hopper was. the president mentioned herin the state of the union this year when he wastalking of course about
edison and the wrightbrothers and grace hopper and george washingtoncarver, sally ride and others -- catherine johnson. these great americans. and grace, at the time whencomputers had just been invented, she was --everybody's writing in this like machine learning -- ormachine language -- sorry, machine languagecode, right? there wasn't anything likejava and pearl and all of this.
and so she felt like thereshould be an english-like language by which we wouldprogram computers and came -- and did the fundamentalwork that invented cobol and now all of ourcomputer languages. so she was -- she's thatamerican who did that. and it's in that same way ithink today as one of those moments where we're tryingto take sort of this stuff that's lived more in thedeeper guts of government and available tostatisticians and those who
speak that -- thosemathematical languages and then the graphs that come. pulling that out and makingavailable in different forms to all of our differentteammates so that we can generate like grace goteveryone generating in these english computer languagesall of this amazing resource that we could havefor each other. so i'm going to turn it backover to our fabulous team of luke and aden and thank youvery much for being here.
luke tate: all right. well, we're going to talk alittle bit about why we're here today. the why. the goal of the opportunityproject is actually quite simple. using open data and moderntechnology ensure that every child, every family inamerica has the access to the resources and theenvironment that they need
to thrive. every child, every familybecause though we still have more work to do we haveproven -- think about what we have proven ispossible here in america. since the start of the waron poverty 50 years ago through strategies like theearned income tax credit and the nutrition assistancewe've reduced the poverty rate by 40 percent. think about that.
forty percent. child poverty fell furtherin the last two years than it had since the turnof the new century. since it's peak in the greatrecession unemployment is now down by more thanhalf, below five percent. the high school graduationrate has reached an all time high and thanks to theaffordable care act more than 20 million americanshave gotten health insurance. for the first time inhistory more than 90 percent
of our country iscovered, right? think about whatis possible. we are living in the mostprosperous nation in the most prosperoustime in history. and yet we continue to haveunacceptable inequality. we have so far to go toensure that all americans are part of this prosperity. that's why we're here. we're here because since2001 we've seen a near
doubling in the numberof americans living in neighborhoodsof high poverty. we're here because we're innations still grappling with the persistence ofstructural racism and the ongoing divisions ofresidential and educational segregation. and because every day welearn more about how a child's neighborhoodenvironment can shape her education attainment, hershot at prosperity, her
health -- and we believethat a child's zip code should neverlimit her future. the opportunity project datashows us the magnitude of these challenges. but that same data and thetools that we're about to preview, that can alsoenable families and businesses, policy makers toidentify solutions and act. using this data we can puttransit stops where they're needed, draw schoolboundaries more inclusively,
invest in long neglectedsidewalks and streets and ensure that all citiesworking on fair housing are investing their resourcesto close opportunity gaps. we want to see thisdata used everywhere. the opportunity projectis about moving from information to action andthat takes all of us, right? all of us together herein this room and everyone watching online. all of us.
coders and advocates andbusinesses and policy makers -- all of us. because we believe and knowthat americans are at our greatest when we say us andwe mean all of us together. that's how we're goingto get this done. and so, we're so grateful towelcome to the stage brianna rogers. we know her because of herwork in baltimore, but everyone who knows herspeaks of her brilliance,
her humility, and the waythat she gives every day of herself for others. and we're so grateful thatshe's here today with us. brianna, come on up. brianna rogers: hello. my name is brianna rogersand i am a student leader with the baltimoreintersection and this afternoon i would like toshare with you some of my personal story.
just tow years ago i foundmyself suffering from a housing crisis. i was a single mother livingin a shelter anxiously searching for housing andchildcare with very little resources and nowreliable transportation. i commuted over eighthours a day by bus. i would be on thebus stop at 4:30 a.m. and travel to mygrandmother's house where i would drop off my infantbaby and then to my career
training program. after my program i wouldtake the same route to pick up my child and return tothe shelter by 9:00 p.m. i knew overcoming thispredicament would be an almost impossible taskbut fortunately i had a community of mentors andsupporters surrounding me. i was a part of a programthat became my second family. the intersection is anon-profit that teaches civic leadership skills tostudents in baltimore and
helps them realizetheir full potential. at the intersection ilearned the power of advocacy for myself andmy peers from talented educators like zekecohen and jared solomon. it was through theintersection that i met my amazing mentor nancycauldwell and her husband chip adams who adopted meand helped me rebuild the broken parts of my life. because of the intersection,i was able to secure
resources for me to acquirereliable housing and affordable childcare, whichis now all within a one mile radius. today i'm proud to say thati'm a sophomore at towson university earning mybachelors degree in accounting. and every day i work hardto provide my child with a better life thanthe one i was given. sadly, my experiences arenot unique and it was not
until i encountered thesedifficulties as an adult that i truly understoodits prevalence. children and familiesthroughout low-income communities face enormousobstacles to success. without access to meaningfulinformation and proper navigation systems familiesare living at disadvantages. caregivers are having totravel longer distances to reach work. healthcare resources aren'tas easily accessible.
and these detriments makeit harder for families and communities to breakthe cycle of poverty. our hard reality is thatfamilies are finding themselves sacrificingpriorities such as affordable housing overwell performing schools and they're settling with less. community groups are doingall they can to connect people with resources butthere remains a deficiency. before starting high schooli remember my mother spent
an entire workday at thepublic school district office. she reviewed several schoolreports and requested that the staff place me at ahigher quality school, which was also closer to our home. thankfully she got her wish. however, we must remembervery few people have the opportunity to make suchendeavors and even fewer are successful. how much easier would ithave been if my mother had a
resource, which consolidatedall the data she researched and suggested optionsthat were unique to her situation? how much easier would ithave been for the public school officials? the upcoming presenters havebuilt fantastic resources that i wish i hadaccess to two years ago. i believe that now is hetime we should respond to the needs of our communitiesand provide them with the
tools and opportunities tolive better and achieve brighter futures. eric scharnhorst:all right, thank you. thank you everybody forputting this together. i'm eric sharnhorstfrom redfin. redfin's the national realestate brokerage with the walk score team in house andtoday i'm going to show you something totally new thatwe created using just a tiny bit of the opportunitydata inventory.
opportunity score showshot areas in pink. these are the places thathave a lot of good jobs in a half hour without a car. this is a area -- this isan area in south seattle. did you guys hear anythingthat i said before this? yeah? right now you're looking atan area in south seattle and we're doing this bycombining the most up to date jobs data from thedepartment of commerce with
our own transitscore network graph. we're also summarizing homeprices for different types of homes and the jobsthat you can see nearby. and we're doing this allover the country even in washington, d.c.here's how it works. you type in an address --and this'll work in your own home. you can do your address buti just typed in the white house and now we're lookingat the opportunity score of
1600 pennsylvania avenue nwin washington, d.c. and we love this. so even though obamaworks from home -- -- he's going to be lookingfor a new job soon and it's helpful to see what theopportunities are like nearby. but check outthese home prices. you pretty much have to bethe president of the united states to afford an homein foggy bottom today. so, imagine -- let's imaginea single mother in seattle.
she doesn't have a car butshe just got a new job. it's at sea tac airport andit's a pretty good job. she took the new gig eventhough her commute is epic. and it reminds me -- itreminds me of this quote from nassim taleb. he says, he says, "you knowthat woman who sells you the wall street journalat the airport kiosk? well, her son is going tobe your attorney and her daughter willbe your doctor."
that quote totally reframedmy understanding of opportunity. anyway, to get to her newjob she commutes two hours each way. that's nothing comparedto brianna's old commute. so we thought about this andwe wanted to help and we wanted to keep itsimple at the same time. and so we built in an optionto show affordable homes that are easy to getto from your job.
and this is whatit looks like. these dark blobs are theareas that she can reach in a half hour without a car. and we're collecting all thehomes inside those areas both for sale and for rentand showing those on the side sorted by affordabilityso that the least expensive ones can show up on top. now what's cool about thisis we can save her three hours a day.
that's three extra hourswith her -- with her baby girl and herthree-year-old boy. she gets to work on time andmore importantly she get's home on time. so she'll save big onchildcare and she'll get to spend more timewith her kids. and that's just one exampleof how everyday folks can use this in the real world. thanks.
maggie mccullough: hi, soi'm maggie mccullough from policymap and our team whichwas comprised of policymap and reinvestment fund,created a very simple tool that was designed to helpindividuals, families, anyone find areasof opportunity. so, what do we mean when wesay an area of opportunity? like, what is that, right? so, imagine your lynne andlynne is a single mom, she has a young daughter and shehas a housing choice voucher
in her hand. in philadelphia thismorning according to the philadelphia housingauthority there were 758 units that would accept ahousing choice voucher in philadelphia. so lynne knows she needs tofind one of those units and use her housing choicevoucher for one of those. but she doesn't want topick just any unit, right? she wants to find a placewhere she and her daughter
could have opportunity. so she wants to find one ofthose units that is in a place where she believes sheand her daughter will have a better chance, right? so in her -- for her thatmeans she wants a place that is a stable housing market,it's near a good school, it's near transit, and ithas a whole bunch of other amenities. perhaps a grocery storethat's nearby, a health
center, a bank ora credit union. things that make a reallyhealthy, vital community. so we built this tool. we used 19 data sets thatare now available in the public domain. we used american communitysurvey from census. we used a host of indicesthat had been put out from hud. there's a housing marketindex that actually reinvestment worked onwith hud, a transit index,
there's a schoolproficiency index. from hhs we received, we gotpoints where hospitals are located, where federallyqualified healthcare centers are located. snap locations from usda,museums and libraries, school locations fromthe national center for education statistics, banks,credit unions, and so on. so, and including septalines from the city of philadelphia.
so we loaded all of thatinto a tool that anyone can go to atopportunity.policymap.com and lynne in three verysimple steps can find areas on the map that are areasthat she would consider areas of opportunity forher and her daughter. so from the simple pull downmenu she can select a strong housing market. we know she's veryinterested in being near a good school for her daughterand we know that she's very
interested in having accessto transit for her job. she can make thoseselections on the first screen and then whathighlights on this map -- this is for philadelphiaonly at this point -- the blue areas on the map meetthose three criteria. so she knows these areareas that potentially have opportunity for her. this is an interactive toolso on the right she can change the thresholds andhave more or fewer places
show up blue on the map. but now she's got those750 addresses, right? so she can begin to thinkabout which ones she wants to look at more closely andshe can start to enter in those addresses and in thisaddress that we entered on bearing street it does, infact, fall into one of those blue opportunity areas. now she can layer on thelocations of schools, the transit lines, wherethe bank branches are.
there's even a librarynearby she can see just how close all of those thingsare to this place that will take her housingchoice voucher. what's also interestingabout this is that the blue outline is the westphiladelphia promise zone. so this neighborhoodis palatine village it sits within the westphiladelphia promise zone and is an area where thefederal government and local businesses are alreadyworking to try and improve
educational outcomesand create more jobs. lastly, what we find mostexciting about this tool is not that it's used just forindividuals and families but for local government, right? as they think about thegaps, the places that didn't highlight on the map -- whatis it about those places and what kind of interventionscould we bring to bear that would help those placesbecome more likely to be a place of opportunity?
or if they want to increasemore access to housing in those highlightedopportunity areas how can we go about doing that? and i think the second pieceof this is that while we built this tool just forphiladelphia all of this data is available for thenation and can be created at a national level andthat we find exciting. sam olivieri: hi, i'm samolivieri from greatschools. we are a national non-profitprovider of school
information for parents. when people look for a homeoften they're looking at the quality of schoolsin that neighborhood. and a brutal reality thatfamilies face is that lower cost neighborhoods oftendon't have access to high quality schools. but a deeper look at thedata can show that zip code does not mean destiny. parents do have optionsand we can help them find
schools in affordableneighborhoods that provide strong educationalopportunity for students like theirs. so what we did is wegathered data from the u.s. department of educationcivil rights data base about learning opportunities atschools such as access to high level stem courses,college ready curriculum, and discipline rates allbroken down by race and ethnicity.
we're also working withzillow and other partners to look at neighborhood cost ofliving and identify schools that are providing strongopportunity when compared to schools in similarly pricedneighborhoods and then we gave those schoolsa special badge. we're adding this to anational mobile friendly platform that's fullyavailable in spanish because ultimately we want to makeit easier for parents and give them access to datato make the best
decisions possible. so to show how this workswe'll share the story of a family living in sanjose, california. betsy and alex and their13-year-old daughter laura are moving. they are spanish speaking,dual income, working hard and struggling to makeends meet each month. neither betsy now alexattended college themselves but they firmly believe thateducation is the key to
opportunity and they wantthe very best for laura. laura is an enthusiasticstudent in her middle school. she is the president of hermakers club and she wants to be an engineer. so, alex starts outhis housing search on zilloww.com. he finds a two-bedroomapartment that fits their budget. as public schools are theirtop priority he first looks
for the nearby schools forthat listing and sees that it's zoned to the highschool oak grove high which is rated a seven out of 10. not too bad so he clicksin to check out more on greatschools. but first off he sees thatwhile this is a seven overall it's rated a fivefor low-income students. he clicks in further andsees that there's also a big gap in test scores, ingraduation rates, and in
college readiness ratesfor hispanic students as compared to allstudents at that school. so, he's superconcerned about this. back to the drawing boardon zillow he finds another apartment that fits the billand sees that this is zoned to a different high schoolthis time abraham lincoln high also rated a seven. but, this school is alsodenoted with an opportunity badge.
intrigued, he clicks in tosee that this means that this school is providingstrong educational opportunity for studentswhen compared to schools in similarly pricedneighborhoods. so, intrigued about thatclicks in again to see more and first off he sees theschool is also a seven for low-income students,better for the last one. he clicks around some moreand also sees that the results for hispanicstudents as well are much
stronger for theprevious school. he digs in further becausehe can see a lot more information about thisschool including how many students graduate eligiblefor enrollment in the university of california. they can see studentenrollment in stem courses, student enrollment nadvanced placement courses and discipline rates allbroken down by student subgroup. so this gives a really goodsense of how well this
school serves theneeds of all students. it builds alex's confidencethat this will be a place his daughter will thrive andthey go with abraham lincoln high. having access to the rightdata at the right time makes it much more likely thatalex is going to make the best decision for his familyand laura is going to get to grow up and be that engineerthat she's dreaming about.
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