Sentences with phrase «poll of public school parents»

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.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

Polling was conducted among a representative sample of registered voters in Kentucky that included an oversampling of parents with children in public schools.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

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

«The fact that only 16 have been announced in the first instance, only confirms a recent Ipsos MORI poll which showed that 96 % of parents and the public oppose the Coalition Government's free school policy.

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.

Polls show that the public and parents are leery of cyber schools, and this kind of media attention (sure to be mimicked in local papers) will only make them more so.

But the poll results on the issue for public school parents - those who interact with schools on a near - daily basis for most of the year — are still disheartening.

We have long known from polling data that the public is concerned about the quality of American education, but most parents are satisfied with their own children's school.

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.

«This poll clearly shows, once again, the faith of the American people, particularly parents, in the public schools.

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.»

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

The 2017 Education Next poll asked the public, parents, and teachers what share of teachers at your local public school are excellent, good, satisfactory and unsatisfactory.

Yesterday, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released the results of a poll conducted by a Democratic polling firm supposedly showing that American parents don't support a plethora of education reforms, including school choice, and would rather increase funding for public schools.

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.

In another Gallup poll in 2012, only 19 percent of the public gave an A or a B to the nation's public schools, but 77 percent of parents awarded high marks to their own public school, the one they knew best.

WASHINGTON — Parents overwhelmingly believe that public schools are the single most important institution for the future of their community and of our nation, and they choose strong neighborhood public schools over expanding choice, charters and vouchers, according to a nationwide poll released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

«And this poll makes clear that not only do parents overwhelmingly believe in the promise of public education to help all children reach their dreams, their prescription for how to reclaim that promise matches what America's teachers want for their students and schools.

First, there was the perennial Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup poll, which showed an ever - wider gap between parents» (very positive) perceptions of their own children's schools and the public's (very negative) perceptions of American schools writ large.

A New York City - based nonprofit organization working to improve teacher quality, the commission conducted two polls late last year: one of 807 adults, including an oversampling of public school parents, and one of 533 public school teachers.

A majority of Americans support school choice, including the idea of providing tax - funded scholarships for poor parents to send their children to public, private, or parochial schools, according to a poll released last week.

More than 40 percent of the parents polled had considered moving out of Boston to send a child to a public school in another community for better educational prospects.

According to the Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll, about 45 percent of parents with kids in public school had heard of the Common Core.

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 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 tePublic Policy Institute of California, found 55 percent of public school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core tepublic school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core testing.

According to recent polling, 78 percent of Mississippians support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Martin brought up the subject of charters by saying that a poll in South Carolina among black parents found that most of them were interested in enrolling their children in charter schools because they were not satisfied with traditional public schools.

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.

Last week, the Illinois political newsletter Capitol Fax commissioned a poll of Chicago voters that showed that fully 66 percent of parents with children in the city's public schools supported the strike, as did 56 percent of voters citywide.

Now we have a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California asking, «Do you favor or oppose providing parents with tax - funded vouchers to send their children any public, private or parochial school they choose?&Public Policy Institute of California asking, «Do you favor or oppose providing parents with tax - funded vouchers to send their children any public, private or parochial school they choose?&public, private or parochial school they choose?»

Roughly two out of every three parents polled said public schools were more important than religious institutions, businesses and the military in terms of providing important skills for their children.

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.

According to the poll, 77 percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Most parents with children in public schools do not support recent changes in education policy, from closing low - performing schools to shifting public dollars to charter schools to private school vouchers, according to a new poll to be released Monday by the American Federation of Teachers.

The 46th annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on the public's attitude toward public schools also shows that although America's support for the Common Core State Standards is waning and the public questions the benefits of standardized tests and international assessments, two out of three public school parents would still give high marks to the school that their children attend.

A 2015 poll of 1,000 public school parents conducted by Education Post found that 65 percent agreed that, «Public charter schools offer parents in low - income communities options for quality schools that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.&public school parents conducted by Education Post found that 65 percent agreed that, «Public charter schools offer parents in low - income communities options for quality schools that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.&Public charter schools offer parents in low - income communities options for quality schools that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.»

New polling from OnMessage Inc., a highly respected national polling firm, conducted after the November elections, shows 78 percent of Mississippians support giving «parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school that best serves their needs.»

The most serious problem facing public schools, according to parents polled, contrary to claims by reformers, is the fundamental lack of adequate funding, with school overcrowding being the second most serious concern cited by parents.

In a recent 2013 Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup national poll on public education, the largest majority of parents ever recorded gave their community schools a grade of A or B.

Furthermore, a recent LA Times poll indicated strong familial support across the state — especially from Latino parents — for annual public reporting of school and student test scores.

Polling in Texas consistently shows that significant majorities of voters favor finance plans that include school choice alternatives that would allow parents to transfer their children out of under - performing schools to other public or private schools.

A recent poll by Education Reform Now, a non-partisan partner of DFER - DC, showed that 76 % of voters and an overwhelming 86 % of parents believe that public charter schools should be part of the solution to the city's supply of vacant school buildings.

In a recent poll, 83 % of parents, agreed that in order to ensure DC remains an attractive place for families, that the city needed to both improve quality at DCPS schools and expand the top - performing public charter schools so more parents can choose the school that's best suited for their child.

The AFT recently conducted a poll of a broad array of public school parents.

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.»

A GOP - leaning polling group found two - thirds support for the strikers among Chicago's public school parents, and majority support among the city's voters — despite the condemnations issued by left - of - center pundits and editorial boards on the kids» behalf.

Poll: public disengaged: A poll conducted by the University of North Florida indicates that a large number of Duval County parents have little or no knowledge of the school district's leadership changes in the past yPoll: public disengaged: A poll conducted by the University of North Florida indicates that a large number of Duval County parents have little or no knowledge of the school district's leadership changes in the past ypoll conducted by the University of North Florida indicates that a large number of Duval County parents have little or no knowledge of the school district's leadership changes in the past year.

Nationwide, according to the PDK Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, two in three public school parents say they have «trust and confidence» in teachers (Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, two in three public school parents say they have «trust and confidence» in teachers (Public Schools, two in three public school parents say they have «trust and confidence» in teachers (public school parents say they have «trust and confidence» in teachers (2013).