Tuesday, May 11, 2010

APS Climate Survey results won't be ready until June

APS employees are completing an online climate survey. The opportunity to participate closes today. Participation is "voluntary", which skews the reliability of the results.

I have received input from a few teachers indicating they do not feel that their anonymity is protected and have therefore, chosen to not participate.

I have been informed, by APS Director of Communications Rigo Chavez, that the results will not be ready until June, after teachers can no longer compare notes on the results from their schools. I would suppose, since the whole thing is being done by computers, the results could be ready as soon as a fraction of a second after the survey closes.

According to the header on the survey, the results will be kept secret from stakeholders who do not have access to APS' "protected" intranet site, and that they will not be "ready" until the "start of the 2010-11 school year".

APS Supt Winston Brooks has just received an award for "transparency".

What a joke.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I Love working for APS! I feel like such an important "Asset." If you didn't REALLY want to know what we thought, then why did you ask in the first place? APS is pathetic!