56 Percent: School Choice Offers Better Education

March 7, 2023: Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters say that, generally speaking, school choice programs offer better educational opportunities for students. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that just 15% say they do not, and 30% are not sure.

The survey also found that, given a choice between two hypothetical candidates, 49% preferred the one who said that parents need more control over what their children are taught. Thirty-eight percent (38%) said they preferred one who said that teachers and educational professionals should decide.

Methodology

The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on February 21-22, 2023. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.

The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.

Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.

Survey Questions

Generally speaking, do school choice programs provide better educational opportunities for students?

• 56%-Yes
• 15%-No
• 30%-Not sure

Okay… suppose you had a choice between a candidate who said that teachers and other education professionals should decide what students are taught and a candidate who said that parents need more control over what their children are taught. For whom would you vote?

• 38%-The candidate who said that teachers should decide what students are taught
• 49%-The candidate who said that parents need more control
• 13%-Not sure