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Add school background data
Teacher info, school test scores, etc.
http://www.ncschoolreportcard.org/src/search.jsp?pYear=2012-2013&pList=1&pListVal=320%3ADurham+Public+Schools+++++++++++++++++++&GO2=GO
It looks like the data is available from www.ncpublicschools.org/src/researchers/
at http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/src/researchers/src-combined.zip
Found a resource using SAS which has school data, but it looks pretty locked down to me. https://ncreportcards.ondemand.sas.com/landing.html
Also looking into using http://www.ncschoolreportcard.org/src/ with Beautiful Soup Python library to parse data for all the relevant schools.
Consider adding information from http://apps.schools.nc.gov/pls/apex/f?p=155:2:0::NO for teacher evaluations.
This is outside the scope of the project, but it's something I found while working on data-scraping and I'm pretty interested and concerned about what happened here... http://www.ncschoolreportcard.org/src/stateDetails.jsp?pYear=2012-2013 http://www.ncschoolreportcard.org/src/stateDetails.jsp?Page=8&pYear=2012-2013&pDataType=1
Did Common Core play a role? (notice "implemented in 2012-13") http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/core-explained/
Charters: List/Addresses: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charterschools/schools/ Data: http://apps.schools.nc.gov/pls/apex/f?p=1:60:0::NO::: (see left nav for the following tables) Table 34 - Final Pupils by Year and Grade Table 37 - Membership by Race and Sex Table 37 - Interactive Report (Prior to 2011) Table 38 - Pupils Being Served by Exceptional Children Program Table 39 - Enrollment by Year, Academic Level, Course, Ethnicity, and Gender Table 40.1 - Per Pupil Expenditure Ranking (Child Nutrition Included) Table 40.2 - Per Pupil Expenditure Ranking (Child Nutrition Excluded) Table 41 - Revenue From All Sources Table 42 - Current Expense Expenditures by Purpose Codes
Greatschools.org has info on public and charter schools. Most useful for the qualitative parent and student reviews. Would be great if we could pull these in.
qualitative reviews / testimonials for magnet and traditional public schools: http://www.strongdurhamschools.com/