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Statewide Virtual Charter School Board unveils interactive 2024 charter school dashboard
Summary
The board launched an interactive 2024 annual charter school report as a public dashboard, demonstrating trend, subgroup and financial views and announcing a monthly ‘lunch-and-learn’ series to train users.
The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board rolled out an interactive 2024 annual charter school report during its meeting, releasing a public dashboard designed to let users compare enrollments, proficiency and per-pupil spending across brick-and-mortar, virtual charter and traditional public schools.
Rebecca Wilkinson, the board’s executive director, said the dashboard replaces a static printed report delivered to the governor and legislative leaders on June 30 and is intended as a living tool for parents, researchers and policymakers. "Rather than delivering a paper printed manual that sometimes gets put on a shelf and collects dust," Wilkinson said, the board is offering a dynamic, searchable resource that will be updated and expanded.
Education Consulting Group’s Ben Siesi walked members through features including multi-year trend animations, scatterplots that map proficiency against enrollment, subgroup filters for race and economic disadvantage, per-pupil financial roll-ups and a geographic map that highlights district and school performance. "You can click on that dot and what you can see is some pretty basic information, but rich information," Siesi said during the demonstration.
Board members asked for additional filters and companion visualizations. Staff said a more granular XY proficiency-growth scatter will be released soon through OPSRC and that the dashboard data are exportable. Staff also announced a monthly "lunch-and-learn" series (fourth Thursday) to train board members, superintendents, legislators and the public on how to use the tool.
A press release summarizing the report’s major findings was scheduled to go out the afternoon of the meeting. Wilkinson said staff will continue adding features in response to user requests and invited board members to suggest improvements ahead of the August agenda.
The dashboard is available from the board’s website under resources and will be linked to the OPSRC companion tool when it is released.
