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ACCORDING TO SURVEY PSS promotes violence-free environment
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Posted on Aug 25 1999
A recent survey on public education indicated the community’s satisfaction with the Public School System’s performance in providing programs and services that promote a drug-free and violence-free school environment.
PSS has received the highest approval rating in this area.
The survey showed that of 1,899 respondents, 607 or 49 percent agreed that PSS “always” provides adequate drug-free and anti-violence programs.
The survey, conducted by PSS, provided 15 questions answerable by “always, usually, sometimes, never, and don’t know.”
In the area of drug-free programs, 28 percent of the respondents replied “usually” to the question; 17 percent checked “sometimes”; 3 percent said “never;” and 7 percent said they “don’t know.”
D.A.R.E is one of the major drug-prevention programs adopted by PSS and conducted in every public school.
PSS got the next highest rating in the area of food and nutrition service, in which the agency received a 47 percent approval rating from the community.
Providing sports activities, for which PSS got a 41 percent satisfaction rating, is the third strongest point of the education agency.
PSS scored least in the area of addressing “at-risk” students. Only 19 percent believes that PSS is providing adequate programs for at-risk students and 27 percent said they “don’t know.”
The survey was conducted among parents, members of the religious community, government officials and employees, businessmen, and private school students.
Ray Tebuteb, PSS teacher training coordinator, said results of the survey will be discussed in the forthcoming educational summit for parents and other members of the community.
Tebuteb said the summit, which will be held at Diamond Hotel on Sept. 8, will solicit the community’s input into the PSS efforts to improve the quality of public education. (MCM)
