Principals’ Perceptions of Influence Over Decisions at their Schools in 2017–18

A new National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Data Point, Principals’ Perceptions of Influence Over Decisions at Their Schools in 2017–18, examines public and private school principals’ perceived influence over seven activities at their schools. Findings include: Most principals felt they had a major influence over decisions made about any or all of the seven activities at their schools.  For more than half of the activities, private school principals more frequently expressed having major influence over decisions than did traditional public school principals. Public charter school principals more often felt they had a major influence over decisions at their schools than did traditional public school principals. This report uses data from National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), “Public School Principal and Private School Principal Data Files,” 2017–18.