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John Perry
Data journalist
John Perry is the data specialist on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's investigative team. Before joining the newspaper staff in 2008, Perry was the senior Computer-Assisted Reporting Fellow at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in Washington, D.C.
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Emory professor called Electoral landslide in June
For the polling geeks of the world, predicting a Barack Obama victory in the days before Tuesday’s election was a no-brainer. But Emory political science professor Drew Linzer pegged Tuesday night’s results last summer: 332 electoral votes for Obama; 206 for his opponent, Mitt Romney. “The prediction the model spit ...
Cheating our children: Suspect scores put award’s integrity in question
Second in a series: Last month, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an unprecedented investigation into test scores that found signs of potential cheating nationwide. Today, we examine schools that won the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award. These schools, the AJC found, were more than three times as likely as all schools to ...
Cheating our children: Suspicious school test scores across the nation
Suspicious test scores in roughly 200 school districts resemble those that entangled Atlanta in the biggest cheating scandal in American history, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows. The newspaper analyzed test results for 69,000 public schools and found high concentrations of suspect math or reading scores in school systems ...
New districts further polarize
Republicans in the state Capitol are about to put the finishing touches on a series of maps that are likely to make politics in Georgia more partisan, more racially polarized — and more predictable than at any time since the 1960s, a data analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution indicates. In ...
New jumps in test scores put some Atlanta schools on the radar
This spring, while state investigators were digging into suspicions about cheating on a 2009 statewide test at dozens of Atlanta schools, an extraordinary thing was happening at five of them.They were registering exceptional gains on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, so exceptional that an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found the ...
Renters now rule in metro Atlanta
Atlanta: "For Rent."That's the picture painted by new housing data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.From 2000 to 2010 the supply of new housing units outpaced demand by 50 percent in the four largest metro Atlanta counties (Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb). The result: In those four counties ...
Coming Friday: Atlanta is for rent
From 2000 to 2010 the supply of new housing units outpaced demand by 50 percent in the four largest metro Atlanta counties (Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb), according to new census figures. The result: In those four counties alone, more than 143,000 houses, condos, apartments and other units were vacant ...
Metro Atlanta getting older quickly
Metro Atlanta is rapidly graying, creating new priorities and problems for a region largely geared to young people and working families. The number of people 65 and older grew by 44 percent from 2000 to 2010 within Atlanta's 28-county metropolitan statistical area, according to U.S. Census figures released today. That's ...
Traditional households waning
The traditional nuclear family -- the 1950s setup of husband-wife-and-kids -- is being eclipsed in the Atlanta region by every other type of living arrangement the census bureau measures. Increasingly, households in Atlanta's 28-county metropolitan statistical are made up of single moms and dads and their kids, childless couples and ...
Donors from Georgia, other states fuel Arizona legal battle over illegal immigration
Opponents of legislation targeting illegal immigration in Georgia say the state will face costly court challenges if it passes the bills, just like Arizona has since Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation's toughest such law in April.But Arizona has not spent taxpayer money defending its law in court, said ...
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