A new online survey of 1,000 registered voters reveals that 51% of respondents think school choice programs provide better educational opportunities for students.
According to the Scott Rasmussen survey, conducted Jan. 19-20, 19% of respondents do not believe that school choice provides better opportunities; 30% of respondents said they were not sure.
The survey also found that 57% favor the creation of more charter schools, and 60% favor voucher programs that allow tax dollars to follow children to the schools of their parents’ choice.
Here are the survey questions and answers by percentage.
Generally speaking, do school choice programs provide better educational opportunities for students?
51%-Yes
19%-No
30%-Not sure
Do you favor or oppose the creation of more charter schools?
28%-Strongly favor
29%-Somewhat favor
15%-Somewhat oppose
9%-Strongly oppose
19%-Not sure
Do you favor or oppose voucher programs that allow tax dollars to follow children to the schools of their parents’ choice?
35%-Strongly favor
25%-Somewhat favor
14%-Somewhat oppose
15%-Strongly oppose
11%-Not sure
Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample was +/- 3.1 percentage points.
