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Number of 2015–16 public school principals and percentage distribution of public school principals who thought they had a major influence on decisions concerning various activities, by 2016–17 status: 2016–17

        Percent
Activity in the 2015–16 school year   Total1   Stayers   Movers   Leavers   Other  
All public schools   86,180   82.2   6.0   9.8   2.0  
                     
Setting performance standards for students of this school   59,880   82.3   6.2   9.4   2.0  
Establishing curriculum at this school   33,750   84.2   5.0   8.7   2.1  
Determining the content of in-service professional development
     programs for teachers of this school		   58,820   83.5   5.8   9.0   1.7  
Evaluating teachers of this school   81,950   82.2   6.1   9.8   1.9  
Hiring new full-time teachers of this school   74,840   82.8   5.9   9.3   2.0  
Setting discipline policy at this school   64,770   82.6   5.7   9.5   2.1  
Deciding how your school budget will be spent   51,110   83.2   5.6   9.3   1.9  
1 These estimates do not include 4.7 percent of the 2015–16 principals about whom no information was available in 2016–17.
NOTE: "Stayers" are principals who were principals in the same school in the current school year as in the base year. "Movers" are principals who were still principals in the current school year but had moved to a different school after the base year. "Leavers" are principals who were no longer principals after the base year. "Other" includes principals who had left their base-year school, but for whom it was not possible to determine a mover or leaver status in the current school year. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Principal Data File," 2015–16; and Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS), "Public School Principal Status Data File," 2016–17.
 

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