Toplines - North Carolina: School Choice - September 7-8, 2020
North Carolina Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted September 7-8,
2020
By Rasmussen Reports
Sponsored by Manhattan Institute
1* 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?
52% Raise
19% Lower
18% Neither
10% Not sure
2* Do you strongly support, somewhat
support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the concept of publicly funded K-12 school
choice?
40%
Strongly support
30% Somewhat support
12%
Somewhat oppose
10%
Strongly oppose
9% Not sure
3* How do you rate the academic quality
of your local school district managed K-12 public schools....excellent, good,
fair or poor?
17% Excellent
41% Good
29% Fair
9% Poor
5% Not sure
4* Do you consider your local school
district managed public schools very safe, somewhat safe, somewhat unsafe or
very unsafe?
29% Very safe
49% Somewhat
safe
12% Somewhat unsafe
5% Very unsafe
5% Not sure
5* 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?
30%
Strongly support
32% Somewhat support
14%
Somewhat oppose
15%
Strongly oppose
9% Not sure
6* Does your state give parents too
much, too little or the right amount of choice when deciding where their
children will attend school?
8% Too much
39% Too
little
34% The right amount
19% Not sure
7* Do you have children who are in elementary school or high
school currently living in your household?
28% Yes
72% No
8* (Answered by those have children in
elementary school or high school living in their household – 220 voters) 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?
71% A taxpayer funded district managed public school
12% A taxpayer funded public charter school
7% Private school
6% Some other type of school
3% Not sure
9* 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; a publicly funded independently managed local
charter school, a private school; a religious school; home school or some other
type of school?
36% A district managed local public school
19% A publicly funded independently managed local charter school
21% A private school
10% Religious school
7% Home school
1% Some other type of school
5% Not sure
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence