The results of this year’s PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Towards the Public Schools offers some heartening news for public education advocates. Despite the rhetoric dominating the national media, which gives the impression that our schools are struggling and that educator quality is to blame, 71 percent of parents give the school their oldest child attends an “A” or “B” (these numbers drop substantially when it comes to the national level, perhaps because of the media’s rhetoric — a mere 18 percent give the nation’s schools as a whole an “A” or a “B”).

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