Sentences with phrase «percent supporting charter»

The survey showed 62 percent supporting charter schools, while just 19 percent were opposed.

A 2015 LAPCS survey of registered voters showed 62 percent supporting charter schools.

Ednext finds 44 percent supporting charters, while the opposition was 19 percent.

Not exact matches

The New York Post reported Monday that Cuomo favors raising the cap on the number of charter schools, and Newsday reported Wednesday that Cuomo would support a two percent annual cap on property taxes.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

But their full - throated support is less surprising when you consider that 20 percent of Douglas County students attend charter schools.

Results from our 2009 national poll tell us that a solid research finding has the capacity to shift public support for charter schools from 39 to 53 percent, a substantial increase (see «The Persuadable Public,» features).

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) reviewed 229 rated charter - school issuances and found only one default, a rate of 0.4 percent.

Differences are due to the fact that EdNext allows respondents to say they «neither support nor oppose» charters, an option selected by 18 percent of the total.

That is a major increase in support for charter schools since 2005, when, according to PDK, only 49 percent favored charters, and 41 percent stood in opposition.

Support for charters among the public at large has remained relatively stable since 2008, ebbing slightly to 39 percent in 2009 before rebounding to 44 percent in 2010.

Support for charter schools, for example, ticked upward by just 2 percentage points — from 42 per cent to 44 percent — between 2008 and 2010.

The remaining portion — 36 percent — said they «neither supported nor opposed charter schools,» a little less than the 41 percent in 2008.

Thus, Ednext found 36 percent of the respondents «neither supporting or opposing charter schools», while PDK found only 4 percent saying they did not know.

Among African Americans, the percentage who «completely» supported charter schools climbed by fully 23 percentage points, from 14 to 37 percent.

That endorsement actually decreased the proportion of Republicans who «completely» supported charter schools, from 22 to 15 percent.

The 2010 PDK / Gallup poll reported that, when asked whether they preferred to keep a low - performing school in their community open with the existing teachers and principal and provide comprehensive support, to temporarily close the school and reopen it with a new principal or as a charter school, or to shutter the school, 54 percent chose to leave the school open.

According to the latest results from the UAS survey, 47 percent of U.S. adults now support charter schools and just 29 percent oppose them, with the remaining respondents not having an opinion — all of which means a sizeable rebound in support for charters.

The uptick in charter support in January among the general public is sizeable, jumping 10 percentage points from 52 to 62 percent.

Meanwhile, Hispanic support for charters increased 5 percentage points from 39 to 44 percent.

About 66 percent of Hispanics with an opinion on the issue indicate support for charter schools, while 68 percent of Black respondents hold the same position.

Between 2008 and 2009, the portion of the public saying they favor charters fell from 42 percent to 39 percent, but that trend reversed in the past year, putting charter support at 44 percent in 2010.

Worse, 39 percent of respondents said they supported «the formation of charter schools,» down from 51 percent in 2016.

In communities where at least one charter school is located, overall levels of support are only somewhat higher: 48 percent of the public favor the formation of charters, while 20 percent are opposed.

Our readers are more likely to have opinions on charter schools than the public as a whole (all but 7 percent take a position in contrast to the 39 percent of the public who take a pass on this item), but the ratio of support to opposition is roughly the same: about 3:1.

On tax credits, citing Trump's position kept support at 55 percent overall; on charters it resulted in a six - point increase in support from 39 percent to 45 percent.

Support for charters among public school teachers fell from 47 percent to 39 percent between 2008 and 2010, while opposition grew slightly from 33 percent to 36 percent.

Among African Americans the portion who support charters grew from 42 percent to 49 percent between 2008 and 2009 and leapt to 64 percent in 2010, with only 14 percent expressing opposition.

According to the 2009 survey, 39 percent of Americans support charter schools and 17 percent oppose them.

Among residents of communities with a charter school, 63 percent of white parents express support for the idea, as compared with 50 percent of white parents nationally.

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»).

When respondents are given the state and national ranking of local district schools, charter support shifts upward to 56 percent and 58 percent, respectively (see Figure 3).

Among uninformed Americans, 51 percent «support the formation of charter schools,» and only 26 percent oppose their formation, with another 24 percent indicating that they neither favor nor oppose charters.

Just 29 percent support converting the schools into charter schools.

[xxx] Support is even higher in the Phi Delta Kappan poll, with 50 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of Republicans supporting charter schools.

More than 80 percent of parents surveyed support allowing parents to choose their child's public school, and more than 70 percent favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

Fully 66 percent of those adults who correctly answer both of the knowledge - based questions support charter schools, as compared to 38 percent of those who answer both incorrectly.

Sixty percent favors the idea, with just 26 % opposed, a margin of support that exceeds that observed not only for charter schools, but also for school voucher programs benefiting the same population of students.

Results from the 2016 Education Next survey, reported in this issue, show that support for the creation of charter schools has remained steady, with 58 percent of respondents in favor and only 28 percent opposed.

Nearly 80 percent of parents of school - aged children support allowing parents to choose which public schools their child should attend and more than 70 percent of parents surveyed favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

Support for Question 2, which would lift the state's current cap on charter school expansion, has remained static at 41 percent, while opposition has grown from 48 percent to 52 percent since last month's poll.

«Fifty - one percent of respondents to a February 2017 poll indicated support for charters while only twenty - seven percent were unfavorable and twenty - two percent were undecided.

Although a small plurality still favor charters, the 12 percentage point drop in support, from 51 percent to 39 percent, marked the biggest shift in this year's survey results, released Monday (see full results with survey questions).

More still support charter schools than oppose them, with 36 percent against (one in four of those polled was neutral).

Charters, which are publicly funded but are typically run by private nonprofit or for - profit groups, have the support of 64 percent of adults, according to PDK / Gallup.

If informed that charters are «publicly funded, but are not managed by the local school board» and that they «are expected to meet promised objectives, but are exempt from many state regulations,» support jumps to 51 percent with 28 percent opposed.

However, support for charter schools in minority communities rose steeply — from 42 percent to 64 percent among African Americans and from 37 percent to 47 percent among Hispanics.

More than 80 percent of the public support annual student testing, three - quarters favor charter schools, two - thirds favor higher teacher pay, and half are in favor of means - tested vouchers.

Among teachers, charter support fell from 47 percent to 39 percent.

Forty - nine percent of conservatives and 36 percent of liberals who were not provided information supported charter schools.