© 2014 K12 Insight Parents, Students and Staff School Time Task Force Survey — Comparison Report Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools April 3 – 25, 2014

© 2014 K12 Insight Overview Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools established the School Time Task Force to study current bell schedules and to make recommendations to help inform district leadership about potential changes in bell schedules. In order to gather as much feedback as possible, the task force designed three School Time Task Force Surveys, which examines various daily start and end times. Survey questions focused on a variety of issues, including how school bell schedules might impact student learning, physical well-being, extracurricular activities and family schedules. Parents, staff members and students were asked to participate. This report provides a comparison of survey results from participating parents, students and staff members. The surveys were open April ,

© 2014 K12 Insight Technical Notes Survey Development In order to increase content validity, survey questions were jointly developed in collaboration with the School Time Task Force. Most questions were voluntary; however, individual parents were required to identify how many children they had enrolled in CMS Public Schools, the school level of each of their children, the name of their children's schools, and whether or not their children use CMS Public Schools’ transportation services to or from school. The required information was necessary for data analysis. Most items used 5-point Likert scales (Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree, No Opinion) Survey Deployment Pre-survey communications included a press release and a letter to parents announcing the survey. The parent survey was administered via a public URL, invitations with unique links and on paper. The parent survey was offered in English and Spanish. Staff members were sent a unique URL survey invitation. Students used their student ID to access the online survey. Data Analysis and Reporting The findings for each question in the report exclude participants who did not answer the item. Results do not reflect random sampling; therefore, they should not be generalized to the entire CMS parent population. Rather, results reflect the perceptions and opinions of just those parents, students and staff members who responded to the survey. 3

© 2014 K12 Insight Participation More than 11,000 parents, 5,000 staff members and 2,000 students participated in the CMS School Time Task Force Survey. 4 Note: *The sum of percentages may exceed 100% because participants could select more than one response option. Responding Group Invitations Delivered Responses Public URL Responses Paper Survey Responses Total Responses Parents*45,1548,3642, ,233 Staff10,3265,309NA 5,309 All Respondent Groups Responding Group Unique URL Online Surveys Created Unique URL Responses Paper Survey Responses Total Responses Students72,7172, ,220

© 2014 K12 Insight Participation By School Level 5 Note: *The sum of percentages may exceed 100% because participants could select more than one response option. All Respondents

© 2014 K12 Insight Current CMS Bell Schedules CMS is open to exploring changes to bell schedules. One option is to "flip" schedules, so that elementary students will take on the high school schedule and high school students will take on the elementary school schedule. Below is a list of the current CMS schedules: 7:15 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. (High School) 7:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. (Elementary School) 8:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. (Elementary and Middle School) 8:45 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. (Elementary and Middle School) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Middle School) 9:15 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. (Elementary, Middle and 6-12 School) 6 All Parents

© 2014 K12 Insight CMS Bell Schedule Options Please indicate how strongly you disagree or agree with the following statements. [Strongly Agree and Agree] CMS should... 7 All Respondents

© 2014 K12 Insight Current Bell Schedule Sentiment Please select the statement that best describes how you feel about the current bell schedule (start/end time) at your [elementary, middle or high] school. 8 All Parents

© 2014 K12 Insight Current Bell Schedule Sentiment Please select the statement that best describes how you feel about the current bell schedule (start/end time) at your [middle or high] school. (N=2,165) 9 All Students

© 2014 K12 Insight Current Bell Schedule Sentiment 10 All Staff

© 2014 K12 Insight Preferred Tiered Bell Schedule From the list of current CMS tiered bell schedules, which do you prefer? 11 All Parents

© 2014 K12 Insight Secondary Bell Schedule Preference The majority of participating middle school (67%) and high school students (64%) indicated they prefer the two early bell schedules. From the list of secondary bell schedules below, which do you prefer? (N=2,191) 12 All Students

© 2014 K12 Insight Preferred Tiered Bell Schedule From the list of current CMS tiered bell schedules, which do you prefer? 13 All Staff

© 2014 K12 Insight Family Needs

© 2014 K12 Insight Time for After-School Activities How strongly do you disagree or agree with the following statements? [Strongly Agree + Agree] 15 Parents and Secondary Students

© 2014 K12 Insight School Schedule and Effect on Family 16 Parents and Staff Members

© 2014 K12 Insight School Schedule and Effect on Secondary Students How strongly do you disagree or agree with the following statements about how school bell schedules might affect students ? 17 Students

© 2014 K12 Insight Considering Bell Schedule Change

© 2014 K12 Insight Potential Trade-Offs Based on a preliminary review, the district may need to increase the transportation budget in order to accommodate any bell schedule change. This may require reallocation from and/or cuts to other areas in the budget. Please select potential trade-offs CMS should consider. Note: The sum of percentages may exceed 100% because participants could select more than one response option. 19 Parents and Staff

© 2014 K12 Insight Altering the Current Tiered Bus Schedule Establishing start and end times for the school day is a complex process that must balance multiple factors that include instructional time, curriculum requirements, transportation and budgetary constraints. In order for CMS to consider any school-day bell schedule adjustment, the current tiered CMS bell schedule and bus routes would need to be evaluated for feasibility. Tier 1 7:15 - 2:15Tier 2 7:45 - 2:45Tier 3 8:00 - 3:00 Tier 4 8:15 - 3:15Tier 5 8:30 - 3:30Tier 6 8:45 - 3:45 Tier 7 9:00 - 4:00Tier 8 9:15 - 4:15 Based on this information, do you think the district should consider altering the current tiered bell schedule? 20 All Respondents

© 2014 K12 Insight Altering the Current Tiered Bus Schedule — Parents YesNoNot Sure Tier 1 (N=3,634)51%26%23% Tier 2 (N=1,957)41%29%30% Tier 3 (N=857)40%32%28% Tier 4 and 5 (N=1,965)37%30%33% Tier 6 and 7 (N=1,644)48%25%27% Tier 8 (N=3,913)58%19%23% 21

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