This week, the 45th annual PDK/Gallup
Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools was released.
Although it hit on several hot education topics, such as the Common Core
State Standards and Teacher Evaluation, one of the poll’s most notable
results was the public’s growing disapproval of private school vouchers.
The survey reported the highest level of opposition to private school vouchers in its history: 70 percent of the public opposes private school vouchers. This is even higher than the opposition marked in 2012 (55 percent) and 2011 (65 percent).
Vouchers along with charter schools form the major core of the
Corporate reform movement and have been the subjects of countless PR
campaigns and a
This increasing public disillusionment
with private school vouchers severely hampers proponents’ arguments
that private school vouchers are the answer to the country’s educational
woes. In fact, given the public opposition to taxpayer-funded private
schools, it is more evident that legislators pushing vouchers are
serving their ideological needs, rather than the needs of their
constituents.
It seems the more people are educated about privatization the less
they support it. Ironically the corporate reform of public education
movement needs ignorance to survive.
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