Sentences with phrase «percent supporting vouchers»

Low - income, black, and Hispanic respondents were even more favorable with between 72 and 74 percent supporting vouchers.

In the aforementioned Education Next poll, 55 percent of respondents supported tax credit scholarships and 45 percent supported vouchers.

When non-public school parents were included in the survey sample, 48 percent supported vouchers.

The results are similar to Education Next's 2015 survey, which found that 58 percent of blacks nationwide supported universal school vouchers and 66 percent supported vouchers for low - income families.

, which found that 58 percent of blacks nationwide supported universal school vouchers and 66 percent supported vouchers for low - income families.

Not exact matches

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

But 56 percent of independents thought teacher unions had «done more harm than good,» 54 percent supported school vouchers, and only 34 percent favored raising teacher salaries, once they had been informed about average salary levels in their state.

In 1996 Gallup tested support for vouchers on two separate occasions, and each time came up with support scores of 59 percent.

African Americans expressed higher levels of support for vouchers than did the population as a whole (57 percent), but support also was 12 percentage points lower among those African Americans told of presidential opposition.

Fifty - one percent of Republicans supported universal vouchers in 2014, compared to just 45 % in 2016.

But even if the PDK / Gallup finding that only 34 percent of Americans support vouchers were correct, who cares?

When the question is posed in a friendlier manner, vouchers, even on their darkest day (2010), gathered support from another 8 percent, with 39 percent in favor and just 32 percent opposed.

When the public was asked the friendly question in 2011, support for vouchers climbed to 47 percent, 8 percent over the previous year, the same amount of gain revealed by the unfriendly question.

Thirty - nine percent now say they support vouchers, an 8 - percentage - point reversal from the 31 percent support the idea received just a year ago.

When informed of the President's opposition to school vouchers, public support dropped to 24 percent.

When asked outright, 40 percent of the public support school vouchers; 34 percent do not; and 27 percent are undecided.

African Americans show greater support for school vouchers (57 percent) than the population as a whole.

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.

Education savings accounts were more popular than vouchers (without a prompt) but not as popular as tax - credit scholarships, with 56 percent supporting them and 34 percent opposing them.

Sixty - eight percent of African Americans and 61 percent of Hispanics supported vouchers in 2007, but only 51 percent and 47 percent of the two groups, respectively, take a similar position in 2010.

For example, 47 percent of respondents said they supported «school vouchers,» while 65 percent supported «scholarship tax credits» and 75 percent supported «education savings accounts.»

In districts that perform in the bottom half of the test - score distribution, support for vouchers climbs even higher, to 62 percent, when information is supplied.

When respondents are told how well local students rank nationally, however, support for targeted voucher programs falls to 34 percent.

That differs sharply from the 43 percent and 41 percent support for universal and targeted vouchers, respectively, among those not provided this information.

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.

In sum, 56 percent of those informed of their local district's national rankings favor universal vouchers, but only 34 percent support targeted vouchers.

When asked about the design of a school voucher program, 85 percent of Americans support allowing parents using vouchers to choose both religious and nonreligious private schools, a practice the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2002.

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.

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.

[16] For example, in the 2016 edition of Education Next's yearly survey of Americans» opinions on education policy, 45 percent of respondents supported universal vouchers while 48 percent opposed a voucher program limited to low - income families.

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.

While 45 percent of the American public supported vouchers in 2007, only 31 percent did so in 2010.

These findings are echoed in a July 2013 poll of public school parents by the American Federation of Teachers, which found that 77 percent support strong public schools over expanded vouchers and charters.

This grant includes a 10 percent set - aside to support private school voucher programs, which has generated strong opposition on both sides of the aisle.

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.

An article in the Green Bay Press - Gazette reports, «Among those polled, 54 percent support the statewide program, and 45 percent said they oppose vouchers.

Support from current school parents is 11 points stronger than overall support, where 56 percent favor vouchers and 28 percent are oSupport from current school parents is 11 points stronger than overall support, where 56 percent favor vouchers and 28 percent are osupport, where 56 percent favor vouchers and 28 percent are opposed.

School vouchers have support from 67 percent of current school parents, compared to just 26 percent who are opposed.

No surprise, then, that 75 percent of voucher - supported students in Wisconsin schools last year had already been enrolled in those schools.

That compares to 45 percent of the public who support vouchers, a slight increase over last year.

New LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs survey found that 58 percent of Louisiana public school parents support vouchers.

In May, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice released the results of a national survey in which 60 percent of American adults said they support vouchers.

... 66 percent of moms with school - age children support vouchers for all students to obtain the best education possible.

39 — percent of registered voters in North Carolina who support using school vouchers to help parents pay for their children to attend private or religious schools instead of public schools.

Respondents were nearly evenly divided over universal vouchers, with 45 percent in support and 44 percent opposed.

Public school enrollment overall has decreased by less than 1 percent, but total enrollment has increased 2.81 percent with the addition of voucher students supported by the state, according to figures from the Indiana Department of Education.

That poll explicitly used the phrase «school vouchers,» finding that 53 percent of likely 2016 voters supported «school vouchers to allow individual parents to use public funds to pay for tuition at private or religious schools.»

Democrats were also more likely to support both universal and targeted vouchers (49 and 42 percent, respectively) than Republicans (41 and 31 percent, respectively).

A poll earlier this year showed more than 60 percent of Americans support charter schools and school vouchers that help students access private schools that might otherwise be out of reach.

Good Morning New LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs survey found that 58 percent of Louisiana public school parents support vouchers.