A new poll says that confidence in U.S. public schools has dropped to the lowest level in nearly four decades. Americans' confidence in public schools is down 5 percentage points from last year, with 29 percent expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in them. That establishes a new low in public school confidence from the 33 percent measured in Gallup's 2007 and 2008 Confidence in Institutions polls. The high was 58 percent the first
...moreA new poll says that confidence in U.S. public schools has dropped to the lowest level in nearly four decades. Americans' confidence in public schools is down 5 percentage points from last year, with 29 percent expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in them. That establishes a new low in public school confidence from the 33 percent measured in Gallup's 2007 and 2008 Confidence in Institutions polls. The high was 58 percent the first time Gallup included public schools, in 1973. The survey also found record lows in public confidence in churches or organized religion, banks and television news.
