Poll: School choice support soars during pandemic | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the Carolina Journal. The author of this post is David Bass.

    A new poll from RealClear Opinion Research shows that national support for school choice has grown by seven percentage points since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Today, 71% support school choice with only 13% opposed, according to the poll. In April 2020, that support figure stood at 64%.

    That jump in support holds across political and racial lines. Sixty-six percent of Democrats support school choice, 80% of Republicans, and 69% of Independents. Meanwhile, 71% of Hispanics back school choice, 71% of whites, 73% of blacks, and 70% of Asians.

    "School choice support is here to stay, and politicians who ignore this reality do so at their own peril," said Tommy Schultz, CEO of the American Federation for Children, in the poll's press release. "Parents are the new interest group in town, and legislators would be wise to keep responding to their needs. The days of the old one-size-fits-all model are numbered, welcome news for the countless students who need something different to learn and thrive."

    The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between June 27-30.

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As School Choice is beginning to take shape in North Carolina: What is your position on what it should evolve into?

  School Choice is only a distraction from the promise of real public education.

  School Choice, as it evolves into its best model to serve the public' s education needs, this benefit will provide choices outside of the historic construct supporting the public school monopoly.

  School Choice - I cannot see how it serves the Education Industry.

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