What Do Americans Say Is the Biggest Problem Facing Public Schools?

“What’s encouraging, however, is that although many of our political leaders continue to slash funding for public education, that’s not what most of us want. A full 97% of Americans believe it’s “very or somewhat important to improve the nation’s urban schools” and two out of three said they’d be willing to pay higher taxes to accomplish that. While there are clear political divisions—only 41 percent of Republicans are down for raising taxes to support schools compared to 80 percent of Democrats—these poll results reveal that there’s a growing recognition that we can’t have champagne dreams for our children’s education if we’re only willing to fork over beer money. “

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