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Corey A. DeAngelis

29 Jun, 7 tweets, 1 min read

BREAKING: Support for funding students instead of systems jumped by 10 percentage points:

April 2020: 64%
June 2021: 74%

Families are waking up.

There aren’t any good reasons to fund institutions when we can fund students directly instead.

June 2021 Results:

Strongly Support: 38%
Somewhat Support: 36%
Somewhat Oppose: 10%
Strongly Oppose: 6%
Don't Know: 10%

June 2021: 88% of respondents with an opinion support funding students instead of systems.

Support for funding students instead of systems (parents with children in public schools):

April 2020: 68%
June 2021: 80%

12 percentage point jump in support among families with kids in public schools

The past year showed these families why options are so important.

Support for funding students instead of systems (Democrats):

April 2020: 59%
June 2021: 70%

11 percentage point jump in support among Democrats.

Support for funding students instead of systems (Republicans):

April 2020: 75%
June 2021: 83%

8 percentage point jump in support among Republicans.

June 2021 survey:
federationforchildren.org/new-poll-schoo…

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