by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Government IT
Several prominent public technology officials have recently announced their intention to leave office. New York City’s Director of Innovation Leaving for World Economic Forum New York City Director of Innovation Jeff Merritt is to move across the country to San...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Civic Data & Tech, Sub Featured B
In Cook County, Illinois, you can try to evade but you cannot hide from your tax obligations. Following the lead of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which has employed new technologies that helped it catch $4.1 billion in identity-related tax fraud in 2016, Cook...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Program Evaluation, Uncategorized
Seeking a more “scientific and data-driven” approach to teen pregnancy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has brought in private research firms Mathematica Policy Research and RTI International . The two research firms will be part of a $10 million...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Program Evaluation, Sub Featured C
Virginia may de-emphasize the weight of standardized test scores in school evaluation starting in the 2018-19 school year. The Virginia State Board of Education has voted 8-1 to overhaul the school accreditation system, which will now include non-academic measurements...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured, Program Evaluation
College libraries have been natural repositories of data for thousands of years. Now in the Digital Age, libraries have extended their function as the aggregator and curator of digital information. Libraries at universities around the country are using data to measure...
