Poll: School Choice Support is Soaring
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/exclusive-poll-finds-soaring-support-for-school-choice/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/exclusive-poll-finds-soaring-support-for-school-choice/
“…the school choice cause has enjoyed a tremendous spike in popularity among voters over the past two years, as public school officials and teachers union representatives have alienated the public with unpopular decisions regarding COVID-19 lockdowns, at-home virtual learning, and controversial curricular content such as critical race theory. Also affecting public opinion on the issue is the tendency of public school failures to negatively impact minority and lower-income communities disproportionately.”
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“A better way forward for education reform is to give families control over their child’s education funds from the outset, whether they want to leave their current school or not.”
“Effects are particularly pronounced for lower-income students, but results are positive for more affluent students as well. Local and district-wide private school competition are both independently related to student outcomes.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/08/save-dc-private-school-voucher-program-unions/
“As with many previous voucher studies, the researchers found that expansion of FTC had a modest but statistically significant benefit for students attending public schools. These benefits included higher standardized test scores in both reading and math, as well as lower absenteeism and suspension rates. And the more competitive pressure there was—more private schools nearby, more FTC students in those schools, etc.—the stronger the positive competitive effects. In other words, the larger the private choice program became, the more public school students benefited. Students with lower family incomes and lower maternal education levels gained the most, but the gains for higher-SES students were still statistically significant.”
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Weingarten: “This parent chooses to drive her students to a school district that has a mask mandate.”
“Teachers’ unions and others who oppose safe in‐person instruction have done more to advance school choice in the past year than could have ever been imagined.”
“”While the majority of American voters from all political parties support school choice,” the latest poll numbers show a remarkable increase in support among Democrats, Tommy Schultz, CEO of the American Federation for Children, said in a statement this week”