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Survey: Edinans Happy With School District; Lack of Funding, Large Classes are Main Concerns
The city council received the results of a telephone community survey last week.
More than 90 percent of Edina residents consider the city’s school district to be heading in the right direction, with lack of funding and large class sizes named among the district’s largest challenges, according to a community survey conducted by Morris Leatherman.
“The community continues to appreciate the education and value that’s offered here,” Superintendent Ric Dressen said during last week’s school board meeting. “They put a high priority on our teachers and the quality of work they do in the classroom and they appreciate the strategic direction we’re headed in.”
The survey polled a random sampling of 400 school district households and 250 parents of enrolled students between late October and early November.
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About 82 percent of Edina residents and 69 percent of citizens ranked the schools’ quality of education as “excellent.” An additional 17 percent of parents and 30 percent of citizens said the quality was “good.”
About 45 percent of Edinans said there were no serious issues facing the school district. Fifteen percent said lack of funding was the district’s most serious issue and 11 percent named large class sizes.
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Only two percent of Edina parents named bullying or drugs/alcohol among the district’s most serious issues.
A survey of students administered in February showed that 10 percent of respondents had been bullied in the last 30 days, and 20 percent of 11th-graders reported drinking in the last 30 days.Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
