Distance education in New York: city authorities want to know the opinion of Russian-speaking students and their parents

The New York City Department of Education is conducting a survey of residents' views on distance learning. Since the department is interested in the opinion of immigrants, the questionnaire has been translated into several languages, and Russian is among them. Basic information and a questionnaire are available at department website.

Home-based education has created a completely new approach to education, and the Department of Education wants to understand how this has affected your family's life in order to improve the system. For this, city residents are asked to take a short survey and leave their feedback on the experience of distance learning.

You can take part in the survey. here (it is divided into districts of the city, but the questions are the same everywhere, and the division is made for the convenience of systematizing the results).

The survey is available in several languages, including Russian, and guarantees the anonymity of the respondents. The results will be transferred to schools to improve the distance learning system.

Parents and / or guardians of students of any classes of city schools, as well as schoolchildren (grades 6 to 12) can take part in the survey.

If you want your opinion to be heard and taken into account, then hurry up - interview open until May 1, 2020.