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GIS in School Decision Making Process: School Attendance Zone Planning
Track: Education
Author(s): Yinuo Du, Pauline Dow

The focus of this presentation is to articulate a framework for using GIS and SPSS as general tools to collect, analyze, and facilitate the spatial data in a process to determine school attendance zones in a fast and efficient way. The presentation will include an example from a fast growing public school district with an annual growth rate of 10 percent. The presentation will also include a process to ensure the 100 percent geocoding rate and all necessary information layers to provide school district administration with tools necessary for successful execution of project.

Yinuo Du
EPISD
Research and Evaluation
1420 Crown Ridge
El Paso , TX 79912
US
Phone: 915-779-4258
Fax: 915-771-1145
E-mail: yxdu@episd.org

Pauline Dow
Canutillo Independent School District
7965 Artcraft Rd.
El Paso , TX 79932
US
Phone: (915) 877-7475
E-mail: pdow@canutillo-isd.org