2015 superintendent report

A nationwide Gallup poll of school district leaders found that less than a third of K-12 superintendents surveyed believe that parents in their school district have a solid understanding of the district’s academic model and curriculum.And just 16 percent of the superintendents surveyed think that parents understand how the state accountability system evaluates their schools.Roughly 70 percent of superintendents say parents need more information to understand the evaluation process and are taking steps to do.The poll results show that parents aren’t the only the group that superintendents think need a K-12 education primer, the poll results show.Respondents gave the federal government less-than-stellar marks on how it has handled K-12 policy in the last five years. An overwhelming majority (89 percent) think the federal government has done an “only fair” or “poor” job.The poll did not ask questions about specific concerns with federal education policy so “it is unclear if superintendents disagree with specific policy actions the Obama administration and Congress have taken, or if superintendents are expressing a more general attitude that education policy is best determined at the local level,” the report authors wrote.