Only Half of Parents Plan to Vaccinate Their Children, New Poll Finds

Education Week reports:

About half of parents plan to vaccinate their children against COVID-19, while a similar percentage supports mask mandates in schools. And despite the upheaval and uncertainty that the coronavirus pandemic delivered to the American education system, public evaluation of local schools has held mostly steady.

There's more:

These are the key findings from the Education Next survey of public opinion on education policy, an annual poll released by the journal, which is published by the Education Next Institute and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School.

How bad?

The survey also found a drop in public support for education policy reform proposals across the board—regardless of whether the policies in question were backed by those on the right or those on the left. For example, support for free public college dropped from 2019 to 2021, but so did support for school vouchers.

An interesting article..