Amanda Whitmire 🧜🏼‍♀️ Profile picture
Oceanographer-turned-librarian | Stanford Libraries + Hopkins Marine Station | MPUSD Board of Education Trustee | WikiData, iNaturalist, BskyApp as ThalassaLib
Dec 12, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨🚨🚨 Spent some time this morning w/ updated data on students experiencing homelessness in @mpusd_now. The impact that #COVID19 has had on our community is absolutely stunning. First, look at the overall numbers. Our rate of homelessness among students has DOUBLED. 8%↗️16%. 🧵 A bar chart of the numbers and percentages of homeless stude .@PivotLearning released a report last year on student homelessness across the central CA coast, and Monterey County was described as being in crisis at a rate of 9.9% homelessness among students. How can we adequately describe current rate of 16.7%? 2/
pivotlearning.org/resources/cris… A figure from the Pivot Learning report on student homelessn
Oct 20, 2020 12 tweets 5 min read
I've been working to try to figure out the cause of this discrepancy, and I think I finally understand the situation (as well as any lay person could). Here's the lowdown - a story in 11 tweets. 1/
By way of review, I've been keeping track of the Monterey County COVID data since the county first started making data available on their website. I do this b/c I'm curious & b/c it's critical that I understand the data for making school board decisions co.monterey.ca.us/government/dep… 2/