Crosstabs - Pennsylvania: School Choice - August 25-27, 2020
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| Pennsylvania Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conducted August 25-27, 2020 By Rasmussen Reports | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Does giving parents the right to choose the school that their child attends raise or lower the overall quality of K-12 education for students? | Raise | 49% | 51% | 47% | 49% | 50% | 48% | 48% | 57% | 50% | 61% | 39% | 51% | 64% | 44% | 36% | 48% | 50% | 49% | 54% | 58% | 46% | 68% | 31% |
| Lower | 19% | 21% | 17% | 14% | 23% | 18% | 21% | 10% | 19% | 12% | 26% | 18% | 11% | 24% | 26% | 14% | 23% | 18% | 22% | 20% | 19% | 8% | 31% | |
| Neither | 19% | 17% | 21% | 21% | 18% | 18% | 19% | 17% | 23% | 17% | 21% | 18% | 16% | 22% | 20% | 22% | 17% | 19% | 18% | 15% | 20% | 15% | 22% | |
| Not sure | 13% | 11% | 15% | 16% | 10% | 16% | 13% | 16% | 8% | 10% | 15% | 13% | 9% | 10% | 19% | 17% | 10% | 14% | 6% | 7% | 15% | 9% | 16% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the concept of publicly funded K-12 school choice? | Strongly support | 40% | 38% | 41% | 34% | 42% | 43% | 38% | 45% | 45% | 50% | 30% | 41% | 51% | 34% | 29% | 41% | 38% | 41% | 40% | 47% | 37% | 56% | 25% |
| Somewhat support | 26% | 28% | 25% | 33% | 23% | 24% | 26% | 32% | 23% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 28% | 27% | 26% | 29% | 25% | 27% | 26% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 27% | |
| Somewhat oppose | 13% | 14% | 13% | 14% | 13% | 11% | 14% | 9% | 10% | 10% | 16% | 14% | 8% | 16% | 17% | 11% | 15% | 14% | 11% | 10% | 14% | 8% | 17% | |
| Strongly oppose | 11% | 13% | 9% | 6% | 14% | 13% | 12% | 9% | 8% | 6% | 14% | 13% | 5% | 14% | 17% | 6% | 15% | 10% | 15% | 12% | 11% | 3% | 20% | |
| Not sure | 10% | 7% | 12% | 13% | 8% | 9% | 10% | 6% | 14% | 8% | 12% | 8% | 8% | 9% | 11% | 13% | 7% | 8% | 8% | 5% | 11% | 8% | 11% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| How do you rate the academic quality of your local school district managed K-12 public schools? | Excellent | 24% | 25% | 23% | 17% | 26% | 30% | 25% | 19% | 19% | 26% | 25% | 19% | 25% | 24% | 22% | 23% | 25% | 22% | 30% | 31% | 21% | 21% | 27% |
| Good | 37% | 38% | 37% | 38% | 36% | 39% | 38% | 35% | 37% | 35% | 41% | 34% | 34% | 40% | 42% | 38% | 38% | 38% | 36% | 35% | 38% | 34% | 41% | |
| Fair | 22% | 20% | 23% | 24% | 22% | 19% | 21% | 24% | 26% | 22% | 18% | 28% | 24% | 22% | 17% | 23% | 20% | 23% | 20% | 23% | 21% | 26% | 17% | |
| Poor | 11% | 11% | 12% | 12% | 13% | 9% | 10% | 16% | 13% | 13% | 9% | 13% | 13% | 8% | 12% | 11% | 11% | 12% | 9% | 9% | 12% | 15% | 7% | |
| Not sure | 6% | 6% | 6% | 10% | 4% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 4% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 8% | 4% | 7% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you consider your local school district managed public schools very safe, somewhat safe, somewhat unsafe or very unsafe? | Very safe | 37% | 37% | 38% | 28% | 42% | 41% | 40% | 23% | 34% | 40% | 40% | 28% | 39% | 36% | 38% | 35% | 39% | 33% | 47% | 41% | 36% | 35% | 42% |
| Somewhat safe | 42% | 45% | 39% | 44% | 40% | 43% | 42% | 45% | 37% | 42% | 38% | 48% | 41% | 44% | 41% | 41% | 43% | 43% | 40% | 40% | 43% | 43% | 40% | |
| Somewhat unsafe | 12% | 10% | 14% | 15% | 11% | 10% | 10% | 22% | 18% | 10% | 12% | 16% | 11% | 12% | 14% | 14% | 11% | 14% | 8% | 13% | 12% | 12% | 11% | |
| Very unsafe | 3% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 4% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 5% | 2% | |
| Not sure | 5% | 5% | 6% | 9% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 4% | 2% | 7% | 4% | 6% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose state funding of charter schools as an alternative to traditional local district managed public schools? | Strongly support | 28% | 26% | 29% | 24% | 30% | 28% | 27% | 28% | 32% | 38% | 18% | 29% | 38% | 23% | 17% | 27% | 28% | 27% | 32% | 32% | 26% | 44% | 13% |
| Somewhat support | 30% | 31% | 29% | 32% | 29% | 27% | 28% | 38% | 30% | 29% | 32% | 26% | 32% | 31% | 28% | 35% | 27% | 32% | 24% | 33% | 29% | 29% | 30% | |
| Somewhat oppose | 15% | 16% | 15% | 20% | 13% | 14% | 17% | 12% | 10% | 13% | 17% | 17% | 12% | 16% | 21% | 15% | 16% | 15% | 17% | 17% | 15% | 11% | 18% | |
| Strongly oppose | 17% | 19% | 15% | 9% | 20% | 21% | 18% | 10% | 17% | 12% | 21% | 16% | 10% | 21% | 23% | 12% | 20% | 16% | 21% | 14% | 18% | 8% | 27% | |
| Not sure | 10% | 8% | 12% | 14% | 8% | 9% | 10% | 12% | 11% | 8% | 12% | 11% | 7% | 10% | 11% | 12% | 9% | 10% | 6% | 4% | 12% | 7% | 12% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Does your state give parents too much, too little or the right amount of choice when deciding where their children will attend school? | Too much | 8% | 10% | 6% | 8% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 4% | 10% | 6% | 10% | 5% | 7% | 8% | 10% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 13% | 12% | 6% | 6% | 10% |
| Too little | 37% | 36% | 38% | 35% | 42% | 28% | 34% | 45% | 51% | 43% | 29% | 42% | 48% | 35% | 23% | 38% | 36% | 38% | 35% | 44% | 34% | 51% | 22% | |
| The right amount | 38% | 37% | 38% | 43% | 35% | 36% | 41% | 30% | 26% | 35% | 42% | 34% | 29% | 40% | 49% | 36% | 39% | 38% | 39% | 39% | 37% | 27% | 49% | |
| Not sure | 18% | 16% | 19% | 14% | 14% | 30% | 18% | 22% | 12% | 15% | 19% | 18% | 17% | 17% | 18% | 19% | 16% | 18% | 13% | 5% | 22% | 16% | 19% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | Yes | 27% | 28% | 27% | 33% | 33% | 5% | 25% | 32% | 35% | 27% | 26% | 29% | 29% | 26% | 25% | 25% | 29% | 25% | 40% | 100% | 0% | 28% | 26% |
| No | 73% | 72% | 73% | 67% | 67% | 95% | 75% | 68% | 65% | 73% | 74% | 71% | 71% | 74% | 75% | 75% | 71% | 75% | 60% | 0% | 100% | 72% | 74% | |
| Only answered by those who have children in school - 270 likely voters | Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | ||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do your children attend a taxpayer funded district managed public school, a taxpayer funded public charter school, a private school or some other type of school? | A taxpayer funded district managed public school | 77% | 80% | 75% | 75% | 78% | 90% | 80% | 72% | 67% | 74% | 80% | 77% | 75% | 83% | 76% | 74% | 80% | 77% | 78% | 77% | 0% | 74% | 80% |
| A taxpayer funded public charter school | 9% | 7% | 10% | 12% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 9% | 24% | 9% | 10% | 6% | 7% | 8% | 9% | 14% | 5% | 9% | 8% | 9% | 0% | 7% | 9% | |
| Private school | 13% | 12% | 13% | 13% | 13% | 4% | 12% | 19% | 9% | 15% | 8% | 17% | 15% | 8% | 16% | 8% | 15% | 12% | 15% | 13% | 0% | 17% | 9% | |
| Some other type of school | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | |
| Not sure | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 3% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| If you had the choice, what type of school would you choose to assure your child had the best education? | A district managed local public school | 38% | 38% | 38% | 33% | 38% | 46% | 41% | 30% | 30% | 34% | 50% | 24% | 30% | 40% | 49% | 36% | 41% | 39% | 40% | 41% | 37% | 26% | 53% |
| A publicly funded independently managed local charter school | 15% | 14% | 15% | 18% | 14% | 11% | 13% | 21% | 20% | 13% | 14% | 17% | 15% | 14% | 15% | 17% | 13% | 16% | 13% | 18% | 13% | 17% | 12% | |
| A private school | 22% | 24% | 20% | 23% | 22% | 18% | 20% | 29% | 23% | 24% | 18% | 26% | 25% | 22% | 18% | 18% | 24% | 19% | 28% | 26% | 20% | 26% | 17% | |
| Religious school | 15% | 15% | 14% | 9% | 17% | 18% | 16% | 9% | 13% | 21% | 9% | 16% | 21% | 12% | 8% | 17% | 13% | 16% | 13% | 9% | 17% | 22% | 7% | |
| Home school | 4% | 4% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 2% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 7% | 3% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 3% | |
| Some other type of school | 1% | 2% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | |
| Not sure | 5% | 3% | 7% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 3% | 5% | 8% | 3% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 1% | 7% | 3% | 7% | |
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| Gender | Men | 47% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women | 53% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age | 18-39 | 32% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 40-64 | 47% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 65+ | 21% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Race | White | 76% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black | 14% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 9% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Party | Republican | 35% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Democrat | 42% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 23% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
