Category Archives: Calls to Action

Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Primaries – March 15, 2016

Who will win your state, your county, your city, your precinct? Using public data and free online mapping tools anyone can analyze an election. Steps to analyzing an election: 1. Map boundaries: States; townships, precincts 2. Election data –possible sources include: –county websites; –US Census http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/ –United States Election Project http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout-data –Esri Open Data http://opendata.arcgis.com/ […]

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IL – HB2428 SCH CD-CIVIC EDUC TASK FORCE

Listening to NPR one morning, I learned about the newly established, Task Force on Civic Education. I immediately thought of the many tools ArcGIS Online provides that would advance civics education in K-12 schools. View larger map The following is the description of the task force from the trackbill website. https://trackbill.com/bill/IL/98/HB2428/sch-cd-civic-educ-task-force. “Provides that the State […]

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