As another school year begins in the age of COVID-19, mask mandates have become a flashpoint across the U.S., with parents on both sides of the issue clashing with each other, school administrators and political leaders. Gallup’s latest polling finds that parents of K-12 students tilt more toward requiring masks […] Read more »
The wall of vaccine opposition might be starting to crumble
The latest Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index finds fewer Americans stand in hard opposition to getting the vaccine at any point since its release. This shift, coming amid the Delta variant surge and after the FDA formally approved the Pfizer vaccine, is particularly noteworthy among parents who have been mixed on getting […] Read more »
Parent Poll Reveals Support for School Covid-Safety Measures Despite Vaccine Hesitancy, Partisan Polarization
The 15th annual Education Next survey, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the current state of public opinion on American education: The public is cautious—extremely cautious. In the presence of a still-circulating Covid-19 virus, a large percentage of parents and […] Read more »
Majority of K-12 Parents Satisfied With Child’s Education
As U.S. children head back to classrooms amid another COVID-19 surge, 73% of parents of school-aged children say they are satisfied with the quality of education their oldest child is receiving. Twenty-eight percent of parents are “completely” and 45% “somewhat” satisfied, which is essentially unchanged from one year ago when […] Read more »
How a year of COVID influences views on start of school
As a new school year begins, the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health asked parents of children age 7-18 about their experiences of last school year and their expectations for the year ahead. About one-third of parents (36%) rate at least one aspect of 2020-21 as better […] Read more »
Support for mask and vaccine mandates in schools
As the Delta variant surges, about 60% of adults feel both students and teachers should be required to wear face masks while in school as a response to the pandemic, and a majority support a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for teachers (59%) and students age 12 and older (55%). But as […] Read more »