LAUSD SURVEYS PARENTS ON PROPOSED HOMEWORK POLICY | The survey is here: http://svy.mk/xdSkDl

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03/05/2012  ::  Los Angeles Unified School District has launched an online survey for some 170,000 parents in an effort to get as much input as possible about its proposed homework policy and other curriculum-related issues, officials said Monday.

The link to the survey will be sent to parents who have registered their email with LAUSD and also can be accessed on the computers located at the district's 500 parent centers. It is also available on the home page of the Office of Curriculum, Instruction and School Support at www.lausd.net.

smf: THIS IS RIDICULOUS! The District is surveying a self-selected few and then hiding the link a number of clicks away from the rest who can navigate LAUSD arcane+archaic website! This favors parents with internet connections and/or those who can and will go to the parent centers at about half of LAUSD schools.

I can’t do anything about the internet connectivity or the fact that the survey is only in English …but the survey is  HERE: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HMWK_A-G_SBP /or/ http://svy.mk/xdSkDl

I do note that the  District’s press release – which is what passes for parent engagement and community outreach – actually did contain the above link – but there is no reference to the survey on the LAUSD En Español site.

Responses to the online poll will be anonymous and will be used by Los Angeles Unified officials and the school board to shape and decide district policies.

The survey includes questions about how much routine homework should count toward a student's academic grade, and how much homework should be assigned for various grade levels.

The survey also asks whether classroom discussion and group projects should be a factor in determining academic grades, and whether the district should raise the minimum passing grade from a "D" to a "C" for core academic classes.

Finally, the district wants to know parents' opinions on holding back students who fail to make adequate academic progress.

The district has held four public meetings about the proposed homework policy and is planning to schedule four more this month.

The district quietly implemented a policy last year that limited homework to 10 percent of a student's grade. An outcry from parents who hadn't been informed of the plan prompted Superintendent John Deasy to suspend the policy and order that any new plan be vetted by the public.