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Statewide Survey · April 2015

PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Education

Mark Baldassare, Lunna Lopes, Dean Bonner, and Sonja Petek

Some findings of the current survey:

  • A strong majority of Californians support the Local Control Funding Formula; fewer than half favor the Common Core State Standards.
  • Most public school parents say they have heard nothing at all about the Smarter Balanced assessments.
  • Half of Californians say the state’s budget situation is a big problem for K-12 education and six in 10 say state funding for local schools is not enough.
  • Two-thirds of adults and about half of likely voters would vote yes on a state or local bond measure to fund school construction projects.

Job Approval Ratings:
Governor Brown [PDF]
California State Legislature [PDF]]

Time Trends of Job Approval Ratings:
Governor Brown [XLS]
California State Legislature [XLS]

This survey was supported with funding from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation, the Silver Giving Foundation, and the Stuart Foundation.


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K–12 Education Political Landscape Statewide Survey