Michigan Public Policy Survey Questions and Data Tables

For your community, what impact do you believe the following strategies, programs, or laws have had-or would have-on the academic achievement of K-12 students: Cyberschools or other forms of virtual learning

For your community, what impact do you believe the following strategies, programs, or laws have had-or would have-on the academic achievement of K-12 students: No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

For your community, what impact do you believe the following strategies, programs, or laws have had-or would have-on the academic achievement of K-12 students: Another school accountability system (instead of No Child Left Behind)

Are you familiar with the high school graduation requirements included in the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC) that was adopted several years ago?

Finally, do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track?

Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track?

How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor?

How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job?

How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board (e.g., county or township board, city or village council) is performing its job?

Do you use internal data regarding your own jurisdiction?

Do you use external data about other governments?

Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations?

Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data?

Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures?

To what extent, overall, does your jurisdiction use measures of inputs regarding your internal operations (including operations you contract out)?

To what extent, overall, does your jurisdiction use measures of workload regarding your internal operations (including operations you contract out)?

To what extent, overall, does your jurisdiction use measures of efficiency or unit cost regarding your internal operations (including operations you contract out)?

To what extent, overall, does your jurisdiction use measures of effectiveness regarding your internal operations (including operations you contract out)?

To what extent, overall, does your jurisdiction use measures of citizen satisfaction regarding your internal operations (including operations you contract out)?

Were your jurisdiction's performance measures developed in-house by its own employees/staff/officials?

Were your jurisdiction's performance measures designed by a consultant?

Were your jurisdiction's performance measures patterned after an available model?

Were your jurisdiction's performance measures developed with assistance of organizations such as MAC, MML, MTA, a regional council (e.g. SEMCOG, NEMCOG), etc.?

Thinking about data from other jurisdictions that you use to compare against and/or benchmark your operations, do you gather external data from the U.S. Census Bureau?

Thinking about data from other jurisdictions that you use to compare against and/or benchmark your operations, do you gather external data from the Michigan Department of Treasury website (F-65 data on other units, etc.)?

(Among jurisdictions that report external data use)