OAR 581-020-0710: Workforce Survey Purpose

(1) The Department of Education shall annually administer a web-based survey of the education workforce designed to: (a) Assist in the gathering of information about the perceptions of working experiences of the education workforce of this state, including the experience in the school district and in individual schools. (b) Evaluate school climate and culture from the education staff perspective. (2) Individual responses collected through the survey will be confidential and anonymous. (3) Data from the survey shall be used to support the following purposes: (a) Honor the importance and necessity of incorporating voices of members of the education workforce into the continuous improvement process for Oregon’s public education systems. (b) Provide Oregon’s public education providers, state agencies, and the Legislature with meaningful and actionable data regarding perceptions of working experiences, climate, and culture that can be used in combination with state and local data to improve systemic working conditions.