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Article: Are Public Schools Flunking or Passing?
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- June 2, 2008
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- As the 2007/2008 school year winds to a close, the picture of the quality of education around the country is dim, according to a new Harris Poll of 2,602 U.S. adults surveyed online by Harris Interactive([R]) between May 5 and 12, 2008:
* Public schools fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to the quality of education they provide. Just one in six U.S. adults (15%) say public schools, grades K-6 provide excellent or very good education while 13 percent say the same about public schools for grades 7-12;
* When it comes to local public schools, those do a little better as one in five U.S. adults say both grades K-6 and 7-12 are ...