The Cowen Institute has conducted annual polls on perceptions of public education in New Orleans since 2007. These polls are designed to provide a snapshot about how parents, guardians, and the general public view New Orleans' highly decentralized K-12 public education system. Each year, the Cowen Institute asks some new questions about the most relevant and pressing issues facing educators and families. They also carry over questions from previous polls to assess how opinions change over time on a few key topics. Beginning last year, the Cowen Institute began releasing the poll findings in a series of briefs. Prior to 2021, they had presented the complete findings for a given year in a single comprehensive report. They made the change to make the data more accessible and digestible for the general public -- the briefs allow to group findings by topic, enabling to surface trends about particular areas of the city's education system. This is the first of two briefs they will release on their poll this year. This brief covers general perceptions about New Orleans K-12 public education; the second brief (ED626431) will delve more deeply into specific areas of education. To capture the experiences and attitudes of a wide range of parents, as they have done since 2020, the Cowen Institute polled 1,000 public and private school parents and guardians in Orleans Parish, as well as a small number who homeschool their children.