Table 2 shows the percentages of parents rating each of the ten items. On the whole, Table 2 shows that most parents feel that Nebraska's schools are doing a very good job in all aspects of educational service delivery. However, Table 2 also reveals that greater percentages of parents give higher ratings to the academic curriculum compared with percentages of parents rating schools' learning environments and delivery of instruction that prepares students to succeed in life after school. Clearly, most parents believe that schools need to change and do a better job of teaching skills that students will need in order to pursue a successful career. Five changes were given and respondents were asked to indicate whether they would support or oppose the proposed change.
Parents are uniformly high in terms of their support for all proposed changes.
Specifically, four pairs of positively and negatively phrased statements were posed and respondents were asked to agree or disagree with each. Conversely, skepticism or opposition to the initiative is found in agreement with negative statements and disagreement with positive ones. The charts at right show the results of this portion of the parent survey. As illustrated, in every case, greater percentages of parents agree with positive statements and disagree with negative statements. Results are shown in Figure 5.