Partisan divides over K-12 education in 8 charts
The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
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The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
Around a third of U.S. school districts mention the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in their mission statements. But these references are far more common in parts of the country won by Joe Biden in 2020 than in areas won by Donald Trump.
A quarter of U.S. parents of K-12 students say racism or racial inequality comes up in conversation with their children very or fairly often.
Amid rising inequality, many Americans feel that the U.S. economic system is unfair and generally favors powerful special interests.
Currently, 55% of U.S. adults express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, unchanged from a year ago.
Veterans and non-veterans in the United States largely align when it comes to the decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Here’s a closer look at what recent surveys have found about Americans’ views of affirmative action.
55% of U.S. adults now express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, down from 67% in June.
About eight-in-ten American adults (81%) say civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the United States.
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