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Public Schools: Are We Losing Faith in Our Institutions?

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Losing confidence in our public schools? According to a recent survey, Americans like the schools that our children attend but we have no faith in the public school system as a whole. Americans' confidence in public schools is down five percentage points from last year. That establishes a new low in public school confidence from the 33 percent measured in a 2007 Gallup poll and 2008 Confidence in Institutions polls.

The high was 58 percent the first time Gallup included public schools, in 1973. Gallup has asked Americans to say how much confidence they have in a variety of U.S. institutions since 1973 and annually since 1993.

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