Glaring omission from DOE's presentation of latest survey results
1. The DOE just released the results of the 2011-2012 Learning Environment Survey. For the fifth year in a row – since the survey was first given -- parents said that smaller classes were the change they would most like to see in their children’s schools, substantially topping the field of ten choices at 23 percent. (See the responses to question nine here or below.)
And yet for the first time since the survey has been given, the DOE omitted the answers to this question from their summary slide presentation.
See, for example, last year’s power point, showing the results of this question since 2009:
During his press conference in 2007, the first year of the survey, Bloomberg appeared to minimize