Global Oil Spills

By @Mady_Moldova & @mnemiopsis

Educational Inequality

By @LucyCat, @Salma, @kristina_codegirl, @Ximena & @Jude_LCFC

The reason we asked this question was that we were curious about whether race actually made a difference in school performance. It turns out that it does! And it is important that people know about all the disparities in the education industry.
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There is clear inequality in New Hanover County Schools that needs to be addressed.....

To figure out the answer, we decided to create a sheet of all the elementary schools in New Hanover and Johnston Counties and their racial percentages, as well as teacher/student ratio, free or reduced lunch, and test scores for each school. The websites we used were “School Digger”, a website page that tells you about the school you searched in great detail and in an easy-to-read way, and “Google Sheets”, which is where we formatted the data before plotting the graphs.
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Our research and coding resulted in this: The higher the test scores, the more White students enrolled in that school. The higher the free/reduced lunch percentage, the more African Americans and Latinx students enrolled in that school. Also, the more White, the less African Americans. (Example: Carolina Beach Elementary.)  Downtown students that are primarily Black are not given the same education opportunities and access to advanced learning.

Similar inequality exists in Johnston County.....