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Section 6: Public/Private (Continued)

Vouchers
Question 1: A proposal has been made that would allow parents to send their school-age children to any public, private, or church-related school they choose. For those parents choosing nonpublic schools, the government would pay all or part of the tuition. Would you favor or oppose this proposal in your state? (Asked in: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007.)
[Code: 56-ChoPV-1]

Question 2: How about the public schools in this community? Do you think the voucher system would help or hurt the local schools? (Asked in: 1987.)
[Code: 19-ChoPV-2]

Question 3: How about the students who remain in the public schools. Do you think their academic achievement would improve, get worse, or remain the same? (Asked in: 1997.)
[Code: 57-ChoPV-3]

Question 4: How about the students who used the vouchers to move to private schools. Do you think their academic achievement would improve, get worse, or remain the same? (Asked in: 1997, 2003.)
[Code: 58-ChoPV-4]

Question 5: In some nations, the government allots a certain amount of money for each child's education. The parents can then send the child to any public, parochial, or private school they choose. This is called the "voucher system." Would you like to see such an idea adopted in this country? (Asked in: 1970, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991.)
[Code: 59-ChoPV-5]

Question 6: In the voucher system, a parent is given a voucher which can be used to pay all the tuition for attendance at a private or church-related school. Parents can then choose any private school, church-related school, or public school for their child. If a parent chooses a public school, the voucher would not apply. Would you favor or oppose the adoption of the voucher system in your state? (Asked in: 1998, 1999.)
[Code: 60-ChoPV-6]

Question 7: In your opinion, would vouchers that allow parents to choose private schools improve student achievement in your community, overall, or not? (Asked in: 2003.)
[Code: 61-ChoPV-7]

Question 8: Suppose the federal government gave you a voucher worth $600, which you could use to enroll your oldest child in any school -- public, private, or church-related. Would you use the voucher to enroll the child in another public school, in a private school, a church-related school, or would you keep the child in the same school? (Asked in: 1986.)
[Code: 62-ChoPV-8]

Question 9: Suppose you could send your oldest child to any public, private, or church-related school of your choice, with tuition paid by the government. Would you send your oldest child to the school he or she now attends, or a different school? (Asked in: 1996, 1998, 1999.)
[Code: 63-ChoPV-9]

Question 10: Suppose you had a school-age child and were given a voucher covering full tuition that would permit you to send that child to any public, private, or church-related school of your choice. Which kind of school do you think you would choose? A public school; A church-related private school; A non-church-related private school; Don't know. (Asked in: 2003, 2004.)
[Code: 64-ChoPV-10]

Question 11: What if the voucher covered only half of the tuition, which do you think you would choose? (Asked in: 2003, 2004.)
[Code: 65-ChoPV-11]

Question 12: Would you send your child to a private school, a church-related school, or to another public school? (Asked in: 1996, 1998, 1999.)
[Code: 66-ChoPV-12]

Question 13: How about if the government paid ALL of the tuition? Would you favor or oppose this proposal in your state? (Asked as a follow-up to the question, “A proposal has been made that would allow parents to send their school-age children to any public, private, or church-related school they choose. For those parents choosing nonpublic schools, the government would pay all or part of the tuition. Would you favor or oppose this proposal in your state?”) (Asked in: 2007.)
[Code: 843-ChoPV-13]

Question 14: How about if the government paid PART of the tuition? Would you favor or oppose this proposal in your state? (Asked as a follow-up to the question, “A proposal has been made that would allow parents to send their school-age children to any public, private, or church-related school they choose. For those parents choosing nonpublic schools, the government would pay all or part of the tuition. Would you favor or oppose this proposal in your state?”) (Asked in: 2007.)
[Code: 844-ChoPV-14]

Question 15: I have a question about how public funds for education should be spent. Some people say public funds should be used only to pay for public schools that offer tuition-free education for all students. Others say parents should be able to direct some public funds to any school their child attends, whether public, private, or religious. This would cover the full cost of public school or the partial cost of private or religious school. Which of these do you prefer? (Asked in: 2017.)
[Code: 1047-Cho6PX-15]

Question 16: [Follow-up to previous question] Some say allowing public funds to go to any school would improve public schools by making them more competitive; others say this would hurt public schools by reducing their funding. Given those views, which do you prefer? (Asked in: 2017.)
[Code: 1048-Cho6PX-16]

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