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Survey: Safety, staff support and pay top priorities in Deming Public Schools
Summary
District presenters told the board that staff and community budget surveys ranked school safety, support for special-needs students and staff compensation as the top priorities; staff participation in the survey was low and district leaders pledged more targeted outreach and follow-up data collection.
Deming Public Schools staff presented results from two budget surveys on Thursday evening, saying both staff and community respondents placed school safety, support for special-needs students and staff compensation at the top of priorities for next year’s budget.
"School safety and security is first," presenter Adcock told the board as he reviewed the survey summaries. He said the district received 61 responses from staff and 237 from the community and used an automated summary of the spreadsheets to identify recurring themes.
Adcock said respondents flagged concerns about campus security (including discussions of SROs, security guards and metal detectors),…
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