Parents clearly feel that parental involvement is crucial to educational success.
This strongly held view helps us to understand the deep level of support parents give to federal involvement in this issue throughout the survey. In fact, the poll results show that not only do parents support federal funding to increase parental involvement, they consider funding for parental involvement programs to be one of their very highest educational priorities. Return to the Survey's index page . There is currently a political and public policy debate in this nation about what role, if any, the federal government can or should play in education. Some advocates argue fiercely that education is strictly a local issue and that federal government involvement is equivalent to federal interference in this nation s tradition of local control of schools.