Sentences with phrase «percent support school choice»

Likely voters have made their opinions clear in polling — 68 percent support school choice, and those percentages are even higher among African - American (72 percent), Hispanic (75 percent), and Millennial (75 percent) voters.

AFC's recently released 2018 national survey showed that 63 percent support school choice, including 41 percent who strongly support it.

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Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cSchools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cschools controlling their choices.

Only 29 percent of voters supported Bloomberg's choice to make the former Hearst Magazine president the top school official in the city, according to the poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percent.

73 percent of respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.

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.

Figure 11 shows that when given a choice of supporting or opposing charter schools, 62 percent of the public says it favors» the formation of charter schools,» nearly identical to what PDK finds (66 percent favoring» the idea of charter schools»).

Told about a proposal «that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» 50 percent of the American public comes out in support and 50 percent expresses opposition.

Overall, 43 percent of the uninformed American public support «a [universal voucher] proposal that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» while just 37 percent oppose the idea, with the remainder taking no position on the issue.

Opposition to universal vouchers, giving all families public dollars for a «wider choice» of attending private schools dropped from 48 to 41 percent, while support increased from 37 percent to 41 percent.

Transferring from a 100 percent black student body to one that is 85 percent is only a «marginal improvement,» says Professor Wolf, who supports school choice.

According to a 2013 survey, 73 percent of Americans support school choice, up from 67 percent in 2010.

There was also considerable geographic support for school choice across the three regions of the state, with 68 percent of East Tennessee voters supporting school choice, along with 64 percent of Middle Tennessee voters and 63 percent of West Tennessee voters.

When told that President Trump was strongly in favor of school choice, supporters were 42 percent more likely to support it.

As the Foundation for Excellence in Education's National Summit on Education Reform kicks off in Nashville today, a new poll of 625 Tennessee voters conducted by Mason - Dixon Polling & Strategy shows that 65 percent of Tennesseans support the issue of school choice.

A 2016 survey from The American Federation for Children showed that 76 percent of African - Americans support school choice, including charter schools.

... 51 percent of Wisconsin voters support a major expansion of the state's private school choice program.

In Mississippi, school choice is supported by 81 percent of white voters and 73 percent of African Americans; a unity we very rarely see in a state where voters are often divided.

«Seventy - eight percent is strong support for school choice.

In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary teachers early in their careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.

The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll by StudentsFirst, a pro-school choice advocacy group run by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.

Quality and accountability matter, particularly when one considers the Wild West version of school choice that DeVos supported in Michigan to detrimental ends — 80 percent of charters are below the state average in reading and math.

Voters support the idea of school choice by a 78 - 17 margin, including 83 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats.

School choice is wildly popular among Republicans, with 74 percent in support compared to just 14 percent opposed.

These results are similar to polling we released last year that found 78 percent of Mississippians support school choice, compared to just 17 percent who are opposed.

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The poll, commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by the Democratic polling firm Beck Research, found 68 percent support the concept of school choice, compared to just 28 percent who oppose the idea.

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The poll conducted by Mason - Dixon Polling & Strategy shows that 65 percent of Tennesseans support the issue of school choice.

88 percent of respondents support making sure every student in a district with an underperforming public school has a choice of attending a higher performing public school.

Last week the organization released the results of a poll finding that 78 percent of parents support a charter school opening in their neighborhood and an equal number of parents favor more public school choices, regardless of where they live.

Annual parental choice survey finds an overwhelming majority of parents approve of academic gains and support Louisiana's school choice program More than 93 percent

Reality: The most recent national poll conducted by Democratic polling firm Beck Research for the American Federation for Children found 70 percent of voters support school choice, and 65 percent support opportunity scholarships otherwise known as school vouchers.

Annual parental choice survey finds an overwhelming majority of parents approve of academic gains and support Louisiana's school choice program More than 91 percent of parents participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program say they are satisfied with every aspect of the program, which allows students to escape failing or underperforming schools by switching to the -LSB-...]

88 percent of Los Angeles residents support making sure every student in a district with an underperforming public school has a choice of attending a higher performing public school.

Moreover, a recent Friedman Foundation survey found that support for school - choice tax - credit laws was highest among groups that traditionally vote for Democrats, including low - income Americans (67 percent), younger people (74 percent), blacks (72 percent), and Hispanics (80 percent).

-LSB-...] Black and Hispanic voters (76 percent) are more likely than whites (68 percent) to support school choice, echoing findings from other recent surveys.

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A 2015 BAEO survey of Black voters in the state indicated strong across the board support for choice programs — 78 percent supported parental choice, 66 percent approved of charter schools and 63 percent favored vouchers / scholarships.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

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Nationally, support for charter schools was particularly strong for Hispanic, black and low - income parents, with 84 percent of Hispanic, 82 percent of blacks, and 86 percent of low - income respondents favoring public school choice.