{"id":15685,"date":"2012-12-20T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15685"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:45:22","slug":"poll-finds-voters-dead-set-against-education-agenda-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/20\/poll-finds-voters-dead-set-against-education-agenda-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Finds Voters &#8216;Dead-Set&#8217; Against Education Agenda in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15686\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 245px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/20\/poll-finds-voters-dead-set-against-education-agenda-in-florida\/scott-and-fl\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15686\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15686\" title=\"Scott and FL\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/12\/Scott-and-FL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Gage Skidmore\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neither Gov. Rick Scott nor his education agenda are popular with voters in a new Quinnipiac poll.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida voters don&#8217;t like education proposals pushed by state leaders and Gov. Rick Scott.<\/p>\n<p><em>Really<\/em> don&#8217;t like them, according to a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/institutes-centers\/polling-institute\/florida\/release-detail\/?ReleaseID=1828\">Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quinnipiac pollsters say voters are \u201cdead-set\u201d against a series of school reform efforts by state leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The worst offender is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/19\/gov-scott-wants-to-change-race-based-achievement-plan-but-wont-say-how\/\">a plan to set different achievement goals for students based on their race<\/a>. 71 percent of respondents think it\u2019s a bad idea, with just 7 percent saying they like it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Quinnipiac pollster Peter Brown said, \u201cVoters, with little difference along political, racial or gender lines, find setting different goals for different races to be distasteful.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>62 percent of respondents don\u2019t agree with charging lower tuition rates for freshmen and sophomores than for upperclassmen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>66 percent are \u201cskeptical\u201d of Scott\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/30\/education-leader-criticizes-gov-scotts-10k-degree-challenge-as-more-colleges-sign-on\/\">$10,000 degree challenge<\/a>. Scott has asked colleges to create affordable, four-year degree programs in high-demand areas like education, information technology, and engineering. But only 29 percent of voters think colleges will actually do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>66 percent of voters are against charging <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/12\/14\/governor-says-job-openings-show-the-need-for-more-stem-graduates\/\">cheaper tuition to students who major in STEM-related fields<\/a> like math, science, engineering and computers. On the flip side, students who major in \u201cless employable\u201d programs like liberal arts would pay higher tuition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, voters oppose &#8211; by 73 to 16 percent &#8211; the idea of allowing \u201cpreeminent\u201d public universities to charge higher tuition than other state universities. These are top research universities that would be able to increase tuition to the \u201cmarket rate\u201d instead of being confined to a 15 percent cap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The poll was conducted between from December 11 &#8211; 17.\u00a0 1,261 registered voters were surveyed over the phone. The margin of error is +\/- 2.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>It caps a rough week for Scott.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of those polled, 52 percent,<a href=\"http:\/\/wlrn.org\/post\/rick-scott-finds-little-cheer-new-survey\"> don\u2019t think Scott deserves another four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook page \u201cStop Rick Scott&#8217;s Private Voucher Scheme\u201d has almost 1400 likes.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Education Association President Andy Ford said Scott and the Board of Governors \u201cignored the parents and teachers of our state\u201d\u00a0with the appointment of <a href=\"http:\/\/feaweb.org\/fea-president-andy-ford-responds-to-selection-of-new-fldoe-commissioner\">Tony Bennett as Florida\u2019s Commissioner of Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida voters don&#8217;t like education proposals pushed by state leaders and Gov. Rick Scott. Really don&#8217;t like them, according to a new\u00a0Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll. Quinnipiac pollsters say voters are \u201cdead-set\u201d against a series of school reform efforts by state leaders. The worst offender is a plan to set different achievement goals for students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[744,1027,1046],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15685\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}