Sentences with phrase «percent of public school parents»

Fifty - seven percent of public school parents would give their local school an A or B grade while only 19 percent of public school parents give the nation's schools an A or B — most parents would give the nation's schools a C grade.

And only 31 percent of public school parents expressed that they would excuse their child from taking a test.

Sixty - two percent of public school parents give public schools in their own communities an A or B grade (The percentage dips to 45 % with nonparents).

60 percent of Americans, 62 percent of public school parents, and 76 percent of Republicans oppose having the teachers in their «community use the Common Core State Standards» to guide what they teach (PDK / Gallup 2014, p. 12, table 3).

Forty - nine percent of public school parents and 46 percent of all of those asked said they were somewhat confident this would happen.

The LSU survey found that 58 percent of public school parents support for providing vouchers to -LSB-...]

Knowledge of the new standards that California and 44 other states have adopted has grown in California, with 56 percent of respondents overall and 65 percent of public school parents now saying they know at least a little about Common Core; that compares with only 45 percent of parents a year ago.

Half of likely voters (49 %) and 57 percent of public school parents are at least somewhat confident.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.

Fifty - five percent of Americans and 63 percent of public school parents oppose including student scores on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations.

In addition to the career and technical education findings, 81 percent of public school parents did believe «their child's school provides students with a safe place to learn.»

A Gallup poll from April found that 37 percent of public school parents had never heard of the new standards or had no opinion on them.

Perhaps even more telling, 42 percent of public school parents said they expect the scores to be about the same as in the past, despite all the changes; only 6 percent said they expect the scores will be lower.

The poll, a survey of education issues conducted every year by the Public Policy Institute of California, found 55 percent of public school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core testing.

Based on interviews with 1,706 adults — of which 501 were parents — the poll found just 8 percent of public school parents who said they knew a lot about the Common Core assessments.

The PPIC survey reported a similar finding — 57 percent of public school parents support the new standards.

The LSU survey found that 58 percent of public school parents support for providing vouchers to help pay for students in underperforming public schools attend private schools.

PDK found that 61 percent of public school parents and guardians expect their children to attend college full - time (47 percent at a four - year school, 7 percent at a two - year, 4 percent at a vocational program, and some uncertain), with 22 percent of families expecting part - time work and study.

Ninety - four percent of public school parents and guardians approve of expanding access to career and technical education as a strategy to improve public education, according to the AFT poll.

An August 2013 PDK / Gallup poll found that just 45 percent of public school parents had heard of the Common Core.

A 2014 Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their choice.

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

In a 2010 PDK / Gallup poll, only 18 percent of Americans surveyed graded our public schools nationally at an «A» or «B.» By contrast, 77 percent of public school parents gave their oldest child's school an A or B, a percentage that grew by eight points over the prior five years.

Fifty percent of the parents of voucher students said they were doing «very well» as compared to 52 percent of public school parents.

Only 22 percent of public school parents first heard about the Common Core from school communications such as a website or newsletter.

Seventy - five percent of Kentucky voters overall and 76 percent of public school parents back the National School Lunch Program's enhanced nutritional guidelines, now in their third year.

The survey found that 97 percent of voters and 96 percent of public school parents think serving nutritious foods in schools is important to «ensure that children are prepared to learn and do their best.»

Not exact matches

Less than half (48.7 percent) of parents whose children were assigned to a public school were satisfied, but 82.5 percent of parents who chose a private school were.

According to a survey released in June of this year by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 26 percent of parents whose high school aged child plays sports hope their teen will become a professional atSchool of Public Health 26 percent of parents whose high school aged child plays sports hope their teen will become a professional atschool aged child plays sports hope their teen will become a professional athlete.

Despite the overwhelming odds, 26 percent of parents whose high school aged child plays sports hope their youngster will become a professional athlete, according to a new survey — Sports and Health in America — conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Hschool aged child plays sports hope their youngster will become a professional athlete, according to a new survey — Sports and Health in America — conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HSchool of Public Health.

78 percent of Manhattan public school parents polled said they don't like the way Mayor Bloomberg is handling city schools.

Parents with young children in public schools were even more frustrated, with 63 percent of them voicing their disapproval to pollsters.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Among public school parents the margin was greater, 69 percent to 22 percent in favor of the union.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

It's true that PTAs are not organized in every school — we are in 29 percent of public schools — so there is tremendous room for growth and to get parents involved in their children's education.

In total, about 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.

Roughly 70 percent of districts also offered parents some degree of choice among public schools or the option of applying to a magnet school.

And, in fact, parents of school - aged children are even more positive than other Americans about their local public schools, with 58 percent assigning them an «A» or «B» grade.

In addition, parent satisfaction at McKay schools is high: 90 percent of McKay respondents reported being satisfied or very satisfied with the school their child attends compared to 71 percent of public school respondents.

«For children ages fourteen to seventeen,» he wrote, «only 11 percent of MPS [Milwaukee Public Schools] parents are actively involved both in the school setting and at home.»

A nationally representative survey by Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Fully 58 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools said that they would rather send their child to a private school than their current public school (see Figure 2), compared with 39 percent of parents with children in schools that made adequate progress.

49 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools picked a private school, 44 percent a public school in their district, 4 percent a public school outside of the district, and just 2 percent a charter school.

In a Public Agenda survey, more than 85 percent of teachers indicated that they would choose a school with well - behaved students and supportive parents over one where they would earn a significantly higher salary.

«Schooling Satisfaction: Arizona Parents» Opinions on Using Education Savings Accounts,» which I co-authored with Jason Bedrick of the Cato Institute, found that all of the parents surveyed reported some level of satisfaction with savings accounts, while only 43 percent of families reported any level of satisfaction with their previous public Parents» Opinions on Using Education Savings Accounts,» which I co-authored with Jason Bedrick of the Cato Institute, found that all of the parents surveyed reported some level of satisfaction with savings accounts, while only 43 percent of families reported any level of satisfaction with their previous public parents surveyed reported some level of satisfaction with savings accounts, while only 43 percent of families reported any level of satisfaction with their previous public school.

In terms of services, only 18 percent of choice parents said that a program for students learning to speak English was made available to them, compared with 50 percent of public - school parents.