President, Civilytics Consulting, LLC. Learn about how you can make your voice heard in how your community recovers from the pandemic at https://xitter.cf/t.co/WADbJTDNxB
Watertown, MA
Joined February 2008
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Want to know more about how mass incarceration is playing out in your city? Check out your public housing authority's policies and look for criteria that exclude people with criminal records. Ppl are often denied housing because of things that happened years ago... /1
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Los Angeles: Decriminalizing low-level offenses could reduce police interactions... if the police agrees & act accordingly. Which they often don't. In LA, the number of Black people arrested over marijuana increased the year after weed was legalized. xtown.la/2020/07/08/after-po…
The Atlanta Police Department is 480 to 780 officers bigger than police departments in similar-sized cities. Bringing the APD in line with other cities per capita would save $60M annually. Use our budget advocacy tools to learn more: bit.ly/3dsWxE0 #policebudgets
Growing up in smallish towns in Montana shaped Jared's thinking about school boards, public education, local government, policing, and so much more. Learn how (& more) in this podcast episode @FrontmatterCast. leanpub.com/podcasts/frontma…
Have been reading a lot about water #infrastructure lately. Not new but this article on Chicago’s flood mitigation investments is an in-depth look at how expertise can get it wrong if the set of experts are narrow & all agree.slate.com/business/2019/01/c…
Highly recommend this 4-page review explaining how racialized regimes in (and beyond) the criminal justice system turn "justice-involved people into entry points for practices that drain resources from larger social networks." science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Through the Student Engagement & Attendance Center, I spoke w/ ed. agency staff about using data from content areas outside of education to reduce chronic absenteeism & increase engagement. Learn about Civilytics' work in education & data science! bit.ly/3sZJMs3;
Students are obviously affected by factors outside of the education system. In a presentation to the Student Engagement & Attendance Center, I described how publicly available data on community context can help illuminate and address barriers.
Jared Knowles 📈 retweeted
Glad to see the New York Public Library following the lead of The Watertown Free Public Library @WatertownPubLib
Excellent reports & infographics from @AIRInforms re: their national survey on how public schools adapted to COVID-19. This kind of comparison is critical to understand different choices communities made & help anticipate the future of schooling.
bit.ly/3lAnsVZ
Jared Knowles 📈 retweeted
I guess I'm just going to have to retweet myself on this one.
Here you get the amount for your community. You can print it or make a PDF or email it. You can send it to those in power, rather than waiting for those in power to tell you how much money will be available (possibly after insiders have already decided how to spend it).