Toplines - Wisconsin: School Choice - September 1-2, 2020

 

Wisconsin Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters

Conducted September 1-2, 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? 

                46% Raise 

                20% Lower 

                22% Neither
                12% Not sure

 

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

 

38% Strongly support
28% Somewhat support

14% Somewhat oppose

12% Strongly oppose

7% 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? 

                30% Excellent
                40% Good 

                18% Fair
                8% Poor 

                4% Not sure

 

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

                43% Very safe
                40% Somewhat safe             

                11% Somewhat unsafe 

                3% Very unsafe
                3% 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? 

               27% Strongly support
28% Somewhat support

16% Somewhat oppose

19% 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? 

11% Too much

                29% Too little                         
                42% The right amount
                18% Not sure 

 

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

                30% Yes
                70% No 

 

8* (Answered by those have children in elementary school or high school living in their household – 300 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?
 

                75% A taxpayer funded district managed public school
                9% A taxpayer funded public charter school 

                11% Private school
                3% Some other type of school 

                2% 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? 

 

                48% A district managed local public school 

                15% A publicly funded independently managed local charter school 

                14% A private school 

                14% Religious school 

                4% Home school 

                1% Some other type of school 

                4% Not sure 

 

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