FirmSide AI · Civic Analytics Lab

Delaware's public record, organized so every citizen can use it.

A growing suite of dashboards on how Delaware spends, performs, votes, and serves its people — from federal dollars and the state checkbook to schools, water, childcare, and the voting record of every legislator. Every number traces to a public source, nothing is editorialized, and the work is nonpartisan. We show you the data; you decide.

School Report Card

DE Dept. of Education · School outcomes

Proficiency, graduation, chronic absenteeism, and enrollment for the state and all 41 districts and charter networks — all students, most recent year, straight from the public report-card data.

DE Report Card 41 LEAs Smarter Balanced

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Is My Water Safe?

EPA SDWIS · Drinking water

Drinking-water violations for every Delaware public water system, health-based violations flagged, with each system's current compliance status and a link to its EPA report.

EPA SDWIS 1,344 systems health-based flagged

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Where Delaware's Money Goes

Online Checkbook · State spending

Every dollar the State of Delaware actually disbursed in the latest complete fiscal year — by department, category, and vendor. $16.9B across 1.55 million transactions.

DE Online Checkbook FY2025 transaction-level

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Federal Dollars into Delaware

USAspending.gov · Federal awards

Every federal grant, contract, and loan with work performed in Delaware — by agency, recipient, and type. 17,988 awards in FY2024, from the public federal spending record.

USAspending.gov FY2024 place-of-performance

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Childcare Access

Office of Child Care Licensing + Census

Every licensed childcare provider, its capacity and quality rating, and the number of young children per licensed slot — county by county across Delaware.

1,198 providers FirstMap + Census children-per-slot

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How Your Legislator Votes

Open States · Legislative votes

The recorded roll-call voting record of every member of the Delaware General Assembly this session — votes cast, yes and no, and participation. No scoring, no party colors.

Open States session 153 65 legislators

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Tracking Senate Bill 272

Open States · Project labor agreements

Follow a single bill as it moves — current status, sponsors, the full action timeline, and how each member voted on the record. First instance: SB 272, project labor agreements for school construction.

Open States SB 272 updated daily

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About this site

First State Lens is a Delaware civic outcomes platform. Each dashboard tracks a specific legislative initiative against measurable real-world results, with every published number sealed to a methodology version and a public source. The analytical CMS — methodology source-of-truth, source registry, lineage graph, briefs — is maintained in a separate private workspace; published methodology is mirrored to a public Quartz site (methodology.firststatelens.com, forthcoming). Built by FirmSide AI · Civic Analytics Lab. The brand is deliberately decoupled from any single stakeholder.