DonorsChoose.org strives to make a difference for teachers and students in high need public schools. To identify the classrooms that most need our help, we assign each school a “poverty level” based on data from an external provider. This data – displayed on every project – can help donors decide where to direct their contributions. It also helps us measure our impact. So we know it’s important to get it right!
Last week, we completed a large-scale update of the school data on our site. As part of this process we found a more comprehensive way to identify high poverty schools, which were previously under-represented due to missing or inaccurate data.
We hope this improvement will enable us to support even more students in our nation’s highest need schools.
The new format seems comfusing to me. The order of projects change everytime I get on to the website. The seach is inconsistent. If you look at CA and seach by cost, it doesn’t come up correctly. It makes it hard to follow projects.
Comment by Bobke — March 2, 2011 at 11:42am
We’re sorry about that. Our tech team is aware of this issue and is working to resolve it as soon as possible. Shouldn’t be long before sorting is back to normal. Thanks!
Comment by Zach — March 3, 2011 at 10:09am
I love what Donor’s Choose is doing for teachers and schools. I have had 6 projects funded so far. What about schools like mine that are moderately income based with no federal money coming in? We are totally at the mercy of supporters like you. We do not have the support of boosters clubs and do not have Title 1 funding. We do have a large majority of military and low income children.
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