“EAquitas”

EAquitas is centered around the issue of school funding in NYC public schools—specifically the inequities that persist in the current funding formula, Fair Student Funding. EAquitas is the action piece of my Participatory Action Research project; it simultaneously collects more qualitative data from those with relevant experience with NYC schools when they take the survey on EAquitas. My hope is through Emoticon-NYC, I can reach a wider audience with this issue! I believe we must better understand how funding in schools work so we can demand what we deserve as students and educators.

The design process for EAquitas as a website was straightforward: it required the components of a thorough research, albeit the content is not as comprehensive as it can be for accessibility, and of a advocacy website, including the mission statement and advocate page. As far as the technical design goes, I created the project name and logo based on our core value, equity—EAquitas, Education Advocacy for Equity; the logo depicts people being uplifted and leveled by hands as the scale of justice. Color choice was more arbitrary, but I imagined EAquitas in purple and teal. Throughout the web-building process, I had to settle for less than my original vision: I could not create an animated scroll scalable vector graphic to walk through my research, because at my level of web design, it was not feasible within the deadline of Emoticon; likewise, I did not have time to learn php to create a contact page. Other changes to my original design included an interview archive in lieu of a dropdown submenu, as suggested by my mentor.

After Emoticon-NYC, I plan to further my research and expand my web design skills.

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The first link will lead you to EAquitas the site! The second link is the EAquitas survey on student, educator, and parent's experiences with school funding--please take it if you have time to spare! Thank you!