Urban School Board Survey (School Board)

The Council of the Great City Schools is conducting a major study of its urban school boards and their relations with their superintendents. The Council will use the results to help develop additional tools, indicators (KPIs), and programs to strengthen the governance and leadership of its school districts.

All information will be kept confidential and will be reported in the aggregate. The final report will be made available to all member districts.

Please complete the survey with information that was current as of July 1, 2019 (unless otherwise specified). If you have any questions or concerns, please call or email Moses Palacios at 202.393.­2427 or mpalacios@cgcs.org.

This is one of three governance surveys that will constitute this study:

-one that is mostly opinions of governance to be completed by the individual school board members (this survey)
-one that is mostly data to be completed by board secretaries and reviewed by the board chair
-one that is mostly opinions of governance to be completed by the superintendents

NOTE: In this survey, any variation on the term “student achievement” refers to the end results a districts seeks to create for the children it serves. Examples include, but are not limited to: literacy rates, numeracy rates, graduation rates, etc. “Student achievement,” when used in this survey, does not refer to the means by which those results are created. Examples include, but are not limited to: literacy programs, numeracy programs, dropout programs, HR, budgeting, expenditures, or anything else that focuses on the work adults do in an effort to improve student achievement. The term “student achievement” is solely about student outcomes, not adult inputs; “student achievement” is not about what was intended by adults, but about what actually happened for children.