Abstract
A Center for Technology-Based Decision-Making Track: Education Author(s): Alicia Williams, Robert Harrison, Gary Peevely Efforts have been made to fund education from public sources since the early years of this nation. The current philosophy, set in 1906, continues to be implemented as statewide policy and continues to place rural schools districts at a distinct disadvantage. This GIS-based project is designed to help expand economic opportunities in rural America by bringing scientific insights into economic and business decision-making and provide science-based technology, products, and information to facilitate informed decisions affecting the quality of life in rural areas. The system conveys to the user not only information, but also knowledge, the key to successful decision-making and planning. Technology and information systems must be used in a collaborative way to study, discuss, design, and simulate education funding methodologies that will support and sustain adequate and equitable education processes over the broad range of schools and districts. This rural education GIS was developed with ArcGIS 9.1. Alicia Williams Amec Earth and Environmental GIS Technologies 3800 Ezell Rd. Nashville , TN 37211 US Phone: 615-333-2055 Fax: 615-781-0655 E-mail: alicia.williams@amec.com Robert Harrison Tennessee State University Applied Geospatial Information Systems Programs 3500 John Merritt Blvd. Nashville 37209 US Phone: 615-963-5183 E-mail: rharrison@Tnstate.edu Gary Peevely Tennessee State University Center of Excellence for Research and Policy 3500 John Merritt Blvd Nashville , TN 37209 US Phone: 615-277-1699 E-mail: gpeevely@tnstate.edu |
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