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Americans Oppose Vouchers, Poll Finds
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | August 22, 2013
This year’s annual PDK/Gallup Poll on American attitudes toward public schools found that while charter schools enjoy broad support, many of those surveyed—70 percent—oppose vouchers for private school tuition.
The survey, which was based on responses from about 1,000 people, found that nearly 70 percent of those surveyed support public charter schools. And a little over half—52 percent—said they thought students in charter schools receive a better education than those in regular public schools.
But on the question of vouchers, 70 percent of those surveyed said they opposed allowing taxpayer dollars to cover families’ private tuition costs—the highest proportion of opposition to vouchers in the history of the survey and an increase of 15 percent points from last year alone.
Predictably, pro-voucher groups assailed the poll, charging that it features poorly designed questions which lead to a misrepresentation of the public’s feelings about vouchers. On the other hand, the National Coalition for Public Education, which opposes vouchers, said the public was sending a clear message in the poll: taxpayer-funded vouchers are bad public policy.
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