66% Give Schools A or B
Sixty-six percent of Wisconsin residents gave Wisconsin public schools
overall an A or a B in a survey released over the summer by the Department
of Public Instruction.
How do you grade
Wisconsin schools? A .......... 10% B .......... 56% C .......... 31% D or F ..... 3% |
The grades were even higher when residents were asked to assess their
local public schools — 73% gave them an A or a B.
The survey of 1,043 residents was conducted last spring by the University
of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center. In other results:
- More than 88% said teachers in their local public schools are doing
a good, very good or excellent job.
- 80% said reading, writing and math are an “absolutely essential”
part of the curriculum, but only 17% said art and music, and only 16%
said foreign languages are “absolutely essential.”
- 49% identified lack of funding as a somewhat serious or extremely
serious problem for public schools.
- 48% said low standards and expectations were a somewhat or extremely
serious problem.
Posted August 31, 1998