Nearly half of middle and high school students surveyed in New York City public schools say that students who get good grades are not respected. Nearly a quarter of parents call smaller class sizes the chief improvement they seek. More than a third of teachers say they do not trust their principals.
Those were some of the findings of a $2 million survey released yesterday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, to which 587,000 out of 1.8 million parents, teachers and middle and high school students responded, providing a trove of information on attitudes toward the schools.
Mr. Bloomberg heralded the survey, which was conducted last spring as part of an effort to grade all schools A through F, as an invaluable tool, likening it to the Police Department’s vaunted crime-tracking system. He called it “the most successful effort in the history of American education to collect a community’s views about public schools.” ...
This from the New York Times.
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