Happy New Year!  Okay, I know it’s already February, and the year isn’t quite so new anymore, so happy new-ish year.  Since my last post, we launched a survey of all 38,000 LAUSD classified employees to find out their experience with/exposure to various support mechanisms.  We had about a 7% response rate – not bad considering we had a fairly short window for response, we didn’t do any pre-notification that the survey was coming, nor did we send any follow-up reminders.  Most employees received the survey in an e-mail.  We did mail it by internal and U.S. Mail for a small group that don’t access the internet with their LAUSD sign-on or are substitutes not located at a specific site.

While most of the survey results are at least somewhat positive, they are not overwhelmingly so.  We will be exploring, at our next Advisory Committee Meeting, how to address some of those issues, including how to communicate the supports we do have.  Our next Advisory Committee Meeting is on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 3:30 p.m.  These meetings are open to the public.  If you would like to join us and do not work in the Beaudry building, please comment to this blog so that I can ensure that you have the appropriate access to the meeting.  I will post the meeting presentation materials after the meeting date.