Do you want to give your opinion on key educational topics that will be viewed by national, state and local decision makers? If the answer is yes, it is your time to “Speak Up.”

The Fayette County Public School System is participating in a free online survey called “Speak Up” that represents the largest collection of authentic, unfiltered stakeholder input on education, technology, K-12 science and math instruction, 21st century skills and schools of the future.

Parents, students, teachers and administrators in K-12 education are invited to participate in the survey by going to the school system’s website, www.fcboe.org, and clicking on the “Speak Up” survey graphic located in the center of the site. The survey is available until December 19.

By taking the survey, participants will be giving valuable input to the school system as well as state and national decision makers on education. The school system will receive its data in February 2009 and it will be benchmarked against the national results. This information is free to the school system and any schools that participate.

More than 85 percent of Fayette’s schools had participated at some level as of November 7. At McIntosh High, 133 of its students had taken the survey, the most of any school in the system to date.

The survey’s purpose is to collect and report the unfiltered feedback from students, parents and teachers on key educational issues, use the data to stimulate local conversations and raise national awareness about the importance of including viewpoints of students, parents and teachers in the education dialog.

In addition to releasing local results, data will be shared on a national level through a congressional briefing in Washington, DC, national and regional conferences and the website of Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit group in California that facilitates the annual survey.

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