Crosstabs - Michigan: School Choice - September 2-3, 2020
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| Michigan Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conducted September 2-3, 2020 By Rasmussen Reports | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| 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? | Raise | 48% | 51% | 45% | 50% | 48% | 46% | 46% | 53% | 60% | 60% | 39% | 48% | 67% | 40% | 35% | 52% | 46% | 50% | 44% | 46% | 49% | 67% | 32% |
| Lower | 19% | 18% | 21% | 15% | 20% | 23% | 20% | 15% | 16% | 12% | 26% | 18% | 10% | 19% | 31% | 16% | 22% | 18% | 24% | 23% | 18% | 9% | 28% | |
| Neither | 21% | 21% | 20% | 23% | 20% | 20% | 21% | 23% | 18% | 17% | 21% | 24% | 14% | 30% | 20% | 19% | 22% | 20% | 23% | 24% | 20% | 15% | 27% | |
| Not sure | 12% | 10% | 14% | 12% | 12% | 12% | 13% | 9% | 5% | 11% | 14% | 11% | 9% | 11% | 13% | 13% | 11% | 11% | 9% | 8% | 13% | 9% | 13% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the concept of publicly funded K-12 school choice? | Strongly support | 41% | 41% | 41% | 39% | 40% | 45% | 39% | 48% | 46% | 52% | 33% | 38% | 56% | 31% | 32% | 47% | 37% | 42% | 37% | 46% | 39% | 56% | 30% |
| Somewhat support | 27% | 27% | 26% | 35% | 26% | 18% | 26% | 29% | 32% | 24% | 27% | 30% | 22% | 35% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 28% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 28% | |
| Somewhat oppose | 11% | 12% | 9% | 10% | 11% | 11% | 12% | 7% | 8% | 7% | 13% | 12% | 7% | 12% | 14% | 8% | 13% | 9% | 18% | 11% | 11% | 6% | 15% | |
| Strongly oppose | 12% | 11% | 13% | 4% | 14% | 18% | 14% | 6% | 4% | 8% | 16% | 11% | 6% | 13% | 19% | 8% | 15% | 10% | 15% | 12% | 12% | 5% | 18% | |
| Not sure | 10% | 8% | 11% | 13% | 8% | 9% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 9% | 11% | 8% | 8% | 8% | 11% | 11% | 8% | 10% | 5% | 5% | 11% | 9% | 10% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| How do you rate the academic quality of your local school district managed K-12 public schools? | Excellent | 27% | 29% | 25% | 18% | 28% | 37% | 27% | 23% | 30% | 23% | 30% | 26% | 25% | 29% | 28% | 27% | 27% | 26% | 30% | 27% | 27% | 22% | 32% |
| Good | 38% | 34% | 42% | 39% | 39% | 35% | 39% | 36% | 31% | 38% | 37% | 39% | 38% | 38% | 39% | 36% | 40% | 38% | 40% | 40% | 37% | 38% | 39% | |
| Fair | 23% | 24% | 22% | 30% | 20% | 19% | 22% | 24% | 25% | 25% | 21% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 23% | 25% | 21% | 25% | 18% | 22% | 23% | 26% | 20% | |
| Poor | 8% | 8% | 7% | 9% | 7% | 6% | 7% | 13% | 5% | 9% | 6% | 8% | 10% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 8% | 7% | 8% | 8% | 8% | 10% | 5% | |
| Not sure | 5% | 5% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 9% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 5% | 4% | 4% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you consider your local school district managed public schools very safe, somewhat safe, somewhat unsafe or very unsafe? | Very safe | 41% | 41% | 41% | 30% | 44% | 48% | 44% | 28% | 36% | 43% | 38% | 42% | 42% | 38% | 41% | 38% | 43% | 38% | 48% | 38% | 41% | 41% | 41% |
| Somewhat safe | 42% | 40% | 44% | 45% | 42% | 37% | 41% | 49% | 39% | 41% | 43% | 41% | 42% | 44% | 41% | 45% | 40% | 45% | 36% | 45% | 41% | 42% | 41% | |
| Somewhat unsafe | 10% | 13% | 8% | 13% | 10% | 9% | 9% | 14% | 18% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 11% | 11% | 10% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 11% | 12% | 10% | |
| Very unsafe | 2% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 6% | 2% | 2% | 3% | |
| Not sure | 5% | 4% | 5% | 7% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 1% | 5% | 3% | 6% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| 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? | Strongly support | 25% | 27% | 23% | 22% | 27% | 26% | 25% | 24% | 27% | 44% | 11% | 23% | 43% | 16% | 11% | 26% | 25% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 46% | 8% |
| Somewhat support | 26% | 26% | 25% | 30% | 26% | 20% | 22% | 36% | 37% | 24% | 26% | 27% | 31% | 25% | 22% | 29% | 23% | 28% | 25% | 32% | 24% | 28% | 23% | |
| Somewhat oppose | 16% | 15% | 18% | 20% | 15% | 14% | 16% | 17% | 14% | 10% | 20% | 18% | 9% | 20% | 22% | 15% | 17% | 17% | 18% | 14% | 17% | 9% | 22% | |
| Strongly oppose | 23% | 24% | 22% | 13% | 24% | 35% | 25% | 17% | 14% | 12% | 32% | 22% | 10% | 27% | 36% | 18% | 26% | 21% | 27% | 21% | 23% | 8% | 36% | |
| Not sure | 10% | 8% | 12% | 16% | 7% | 6% | 11% | 6% | 8% | 9% | 11% | 10% | 6% | 12% | 9% | 12% | 8% | 10% | 5% | 6% | 11% | 9% | 10% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Does your state give parents too much, too little or the right amount of choice when deciding where their children will attend school? | Too much | 10% | 12% | 8% | 7% | 12% | 9% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 6% | 12% | 11% | 9% | 8% | 14% | 7% | 12% | 11% | 9% | 14% | 9% | 7% | 13% |
| Too little | 29% | 32% | 26% | 30% | 29% | 25% | 27% | 34% | 34% | 36% | 22% | 30% | 38% | 26% | 20% | 27% | 30% | 29% | 27% | 31% | 28% | 40% | 19% | |
| The right amount | 39% | 37% | 40% | 40% | 37% | 40% | 40% | 33% | 32% | 39% | 41% | 35% | 34% | 45% | 39% | 41% | 37% | 38% | 45% | 41% | 38% | 33% | 43% | |
| Not sure | 23% | 19% | 26% | 23% | 21% | 26% | 23% | 22% | 24% | 19% | 25% | 24% | 20% | 21% | 27% | 24% | 22% | 22% | 19% | 14% | 25% | 21% | 25% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | Yes | 22% | 22% | 23% | 33% | 23% | 5% | 20% | 29% | 27% | 22% | 23% | 22% | 22% | 27% | 18% | 18% | 25% | 21% | 28% | 100% | 0% | 23% | 20% |
| No | 78% | 78% | 77% | 67% | 77% | 95% | 80% | 71% | 73% | 78% | 77% | 78% | 78% | 73% | 82% | 82% | 75% | 79% | 72% | 0% | 100% | 77% | 80% | |
| Answered only by those who have children in elementary school or high school - 220 Voters | Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | ||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| 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? | A taxpayer funded district managed public school | 73% | 70% | 75% | 69% | 75% | 79% | 75% | 66% | 69% | 70% | 78% | 69% | 68% | 78% | 77% | 66% | 76% | 75% | 71% | 73% | 0% | 68% | 79% |
| A taxpayer funded public charter school | 9% | 10% | 8% | 14% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 18% | 23% | 7% | 8% | 12% | 10% | 7% | 10% | 13% | 7% | 11% | 6% | 9% | 0% | 9% | 7% | |
| Private school | 11% | 15% | 8% | 7% | 16% | 4% | 13% | 8% | 5% | 18% | 7% | 9% | 20% | 9% | 1% | 9% | 13% | 7% | 19% | 11% | 0% | 18% | 7% | |
| Some other type of school | 4% | 3% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 6% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 2% | 5% | 0% | 4% | 0% | 2% | 4% | |
| Not sure | 3% | 1% | 5% | 6% | 1% | 0% | 3% | 6% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 0% | 3% | 3% | |
| Total | Gender | Age | Race | Party | Ideology | Education | Income | Do you have children who are in elementary school or high school currently living in your household? | 2020 Presidential Election | |||||||||||||||
| LV's | Men | Women | 18-39 | 40-64 | 65+ | White | Black | Other | Republican | Democrat | Other | Conservative | Moderate | Liberal | No college degree | College degree | Less than $100K | More than $100K | Yes | No | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | ||
| 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 | 44% | 42% | 46% | 41% | 44% | 50% | 47% | 35% | 39% | 32% | 55% | 43% | 27% | 52% | 59% | 45% | 44% | 43% | 45% | 39% | 46% | 27% | 60% |
| A publicly funded independently managed local charter school | 12% | 13% | 11% | 15% | 11% | 11% | 10% | 19% | 15% | 16% | 11% | 9% | 17% | 10% | 9% | 13% | 11% | 12% | 13% | 16% | 11% | 16% | 8% | |
| A private school | 18% | 20% | 15% | 20% | 17% | 14% | 17% | 20% | 21% | 19% | 14% | 20% | 19% | 19% | 15% | 15% | 20% | 17% | 23% | 23% | 16% | 21% | 14% | |
| Religious school | 14% | 12% | 15% | 6% | 16% | 19% | 13% | 14% | 15% | 20% | 8% | 14% | 23% | 10% | 6% | 13% | 15% | 13% | 15% | 11% | 15% | 22% | 7% | |
| Home school | 5% | 6% | 5% | 8% | 5% | 2% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 8% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 6% | 2% | 6% | 5% | 7% | 3% | |
| Some other type of school | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | |
| Not sure | 6% | 6% | 7% | 9% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 7% | 4% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 5% | 6% | 8% | 5% | 7% | 1% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 6% | |
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| Gender | Men | 48% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women | 52% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Age | 18-39 | 31% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 40-64 | 47% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 65+ | 22% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Race | White | 75% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black | 15% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 10% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Party | Republican | 32% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Democrat | 39% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 29% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
