Florida School District Performance Dashboard - using education dashboards to promote citizen journalism and local political action
We are well familiar with the usual ways big business uses performance dashboards - to measure and improve corporate measures, quicken agility in the market, boost shareholder value, blah, blah. It is quite refreshing to see performance dashboards used in a different light. Thanks to long time Dashboard Spy reader, Clint, we have this Florida School District Education Dashboard to study. This performance dashboard tracks the performance of school districts in Florida. It is done using Crystal Xcelsius. What is really of interest to me is how the dashboard is being used as the core of a local political action. Note the instructions on how to send the dashboard to others and how users are encouraged to make the dashboard the center of their citizen journalism. Clint was mentioning how he had some suggestions about the layout of the dashboard. It’d be wonderful if he would share some of his insight here. Thanks in advance!


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