Toplines - Pennsylvania: School Choice - August 25-27, 2020

 

Pennsylvania Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters

Conducted August 25-27, 2020
By Rasmussen Reports

Sponsored by Manhattan Institute

 

1* 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? 

                49% Raise 

                19% Lower 

                19% Neither
                13% Not sure

 

2* Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the concept of publicly funded K-12 school choice?

 

40% Strongly support
26% Somewhat support

13% Somewhat oppose

11% Strongly oppose

10% Not sure  

3* How do you rate the academic quality of your local school district managed K-12 public schools....excellent, good, fair or poor? 

                24% Excellent
                37% Good 

                22% Fair
                11% Poor 

                6% Not sure

 

4* Do you consider your local school district managed public schools very safe, somewhat safe, somewhat unsafe or very unsafe? 

                37% Very safe
                42% Somewhat safe             

                12% Somewhat unsafe 

                3% Very unsafe
                5% Not sure

 

 

 

 

 

5* 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? 

               28% Strongly support
30% Somewhat support

15% Somewhat oppose

17% Strongly oppose

10% Not sure

 

6* Does your state give parents too much, too little or the right amount of choice when deciding where their children will attend school? 

8% Too much

                37% Too little                         
                38% The right amount
                18% Not sure 

 

7* Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? 

                27% Yes
                73% No 

 

8* (Answered by those have children in elementary school or high school living in their household – 270 voters) 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?
 

                77% A taxpayer funded district managed public school
                9% A taxpayer funded public charter school 

                13% Private school
                0% Some other type of school 

                1% Not sure

 

9* 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; a publicly funded independently managed local charter school, a private school; a religious school; home school or some other type of school? 

 

                38% A district managed local public school 

                15% A publicly funded independently managed local charter school 

                22% A private school 

                15% Religious school 

                4% Home school 

                1% Some other type of school 

                5% Not sure 

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence