A new national poll shows a majority of Americans support school choice measures that would allow families to use taxpayer funds to attend a private school.
The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll conducted by Noble Predictive Insights found that over two-thirds of the more than 2,200 likely voters polled support giving families choices using public funds.
The poll found that 69% of likely voters said they support a federal tax credit program that would allow students to attend a school of their choice, including a private school. Only 20% of voters said students “should attend the schools they are assigned to attend.”
David Byler, chief of research at Noble Predictive Insights, told The Center Square that the question tests how voters react to the conservative argument for school choice, charter schools or what are sometimes described as school vouchers or education savings accounts (ESAs).
“It says, ‘What do you think of having choice when it comes to education?’ And what you find is that the message there works really pretty well.” […]
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