Poll: 58% of Americans Favor Vouchers for K –12 Private School

Emily EkinsTheCato 2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey finds a solid majority (58%) of Americans favor a proposal that would allow parents to use a “voucher to enroll their children in a private school” with “government helping to pay the tuition” while 40% oppose.Full survey results and report found here.African Americans, lower-income Americans, high school graduates, and Republicans are most likely to favor letting parents use vouchers to send their kids to private school.More than two-thirds (69%) of African Americans support school vouchers, compared to 56% of White and Latino Americans.Nearly three-fourths (73%) of people with annual incomes below $20,000 and 64% of high school graduates support school vouchers. But support drops among those with incomes above $20,000 and college graduates to 55% and 52%, respectively. Nevertheless, slim majorities continue to favor the proposal.Republicans (68%) and independents (61%) are more supportive of school vouchers than are Democrats (47%). Instead, 50% of Democrats oppose such a proposal.School vouchers divide Democrats. A strong majority (61%) of liberal Democrats oppose school vouchers while a solid majority (60%) of moderate Democrats favor them.55% of Americans Would Prefer to Send Their Kids to Private School; 59% of Democrats Prefer Public SchoolAbout 90% of children in elementary and secondary schools attend public schools.[1]But a majority (55%) of Americans would rather send their kids to a private ...
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