Who Lost The American Public? [Updated]

A national Scripps poll has found that most Americans believe that the No Child Left Behind is in need of major reforms.

Twenty-three percent said they want the law renewed in its current form, 14 percent want it abolished and 49 percent want it amended. Fourteen percent were undecided. Taken together, 63 percent want the law abolished or amended.

About three-quarters of people who said they are “very familiar” with the law also say they want it altered or abolished, compared to less than half of people who say they are “not familiar” with the measure.

Well-educated people, especially college graduates and those who’ve attended post-graduate schooling, are especially likely to call for changes to the law. People who have public school children at home are somewhat more likely to want the law altered or abolished than are people who don’t currently have children in school.

Although much of the criticism in Congress against the current form of the law is coming from Republicans, the poll found that Democrats in the general public were more likely to want changes in the law than were Republicans.

UPDATE:

It’s a fixed poll, says Eduwonk, intent on playing the role of Cornwallis at the NCLB Yorktown. Hold on, he tells his soldiers, Clinton’s relief army some mysterious entity which can not be named is on its way with another poll.

One of his “usual suspects” responds.

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