Education Dive Brief:
Nearly 100% of principals polled for the National Center for Education Statistics' 2017-18 National Teacher and Principal Survey reported feeling they had a major influence on several school activity decisions, including the hiring of teachers and setting discipline.
The area of highest influence principals said they had was in evaluating teachers, while the area of lowest influence was in establishing curriculum. Principals’ perceived influence, however, differed by school type, with private school leaders saying they had a greater level of influence in establishing curriculum and setting student performance standards than public school respondents.
The purpose of the NTPS is to collect information that can provide a detailed and nationally representative picture of U.S. elementary and secondary schools and their staff. Though data from the 2017-18 survey was first released in 2020, the Institute of Education Sciences is continuing to release information from the survey that expands on earlier reports.
