Data science tools to study US school board policy-making
DistrictView is the largest collection of school board meetings ever assembled and publicly released. We identify, process, clean, and publicly release data on school board meetings as posted on YouTube.
DistrictView was created by Tyler Simko, Rebecca Johnson, Mirya Holman, and Mason Reece. DistrictView is a companion project to LocalView, by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko.
This project is generously supported by:
Cite the Paper
Holman, Mirya, Rebecca Johnson, and Tyler Simko. "Measuring conflict in local politics." Urban Affairs Review 62, no. 2 (2026): 303-338.. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874251355893
@article{holman2026measuring,
title={Measuring conflict in local politics},
author={Holman, Mirya and Johnson, Rebecca and Simko, Tyler},
journal={Urban Affairs Review},
volume={62},
number={2},
pages={303--338},
year={2026},
publisher={SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA}
}
Cite the Dataset
DRAFT: Simko T, Johnson R, Holman M, Reece M (2025). "DistrictView." Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJTBEM
@Misc{simko2025districtview_data,
title = {{DistrictView}},
author = {Tyler Simko and Rebecca Johnson and
Mirya Holman and Mason Reece},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
doi = {10.7910/DVN/NJTBEM},
}
Research Assistants and Project Alums
We are grateful to a number of research assistants who made this work possible, including Corrina Calanoc, Collin Crane, Devanshi Shah, Talia Stringfellow, Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan, Natalie Smith, and Abigail Wolfe.