DISTRICT PREPARES COMMUNITY SURVEY : 400 WILL BE POLLED IN PALMDALE.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. will spend $32,000 to survey residents on their opinion of local schools, what they think schools are doing well and where they need to improve. Possible areas to be discussed include educational programs, social programs such as Healthy Start and Head Start, school safety, community needs and class-size reduction, officials said. ``If you want a collaborative relationship with the community, it's important to know what they feel and think,'' board member Sheldon Epstein said. ``We can use the input as guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. in setting the direction of the district.'' The school board last week approved hiring San Ramon-based consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a Price Research to design the questionnaire, collect and analyze the data and provide a report to the district. At least 400 residents will be telephoned. District officials did not know when the survey would be finished but said it would be sometime before July. ``It's always good to take the pulse and see how we're doing,'' Assistant Superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. Carolyn Hansen Han·sen , Gerhard Henrik Armauer 1746-1845. Norwegian physician and bacteriologist who discovered (1869) the leprosy bacillus. said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a proposal by Price Research, ``The community survey will help determine among other things, the community attitudes, opinions, and perceptions (of) residents of the Palmdale School District particularly as these perceptions and opinions relate to the issue of school safety.'' Information gathered in the survey can be used by the district in many ways, a district staff report states. District administrators often must respond to county, state and federal surveys and are required to provide statistical data for grant applications and other reports. The data also can be of help in compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: the district's upcoming accountability report, which provides information about the district to parents. ``The sample size of 400 provides reliability with respect to the data, and insures that the margin of error will be less than four percent points,'' the Price Research proposal states. |
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