Wes Anderson, an experienced pollster on Wisconsin education issues, recently reported a survey that shows sixty-eight percent of likely voters favor school choice for all Wisconsin families. A plurality of Democrats support school choice with sixty-nine percent of independents. Even in the liberal Madison media market, support was sixty-one percent. Statewide, fifty-five percent said they would be less likely to vote for an opponent of universal choice while only twenty-five percent said they would be more likely to vote for such a candidate.
These numbers happen because people are seeing that school choice really works for students and their families—and they want it for everyone, not just for low-income families or those living in a specific zip code. A great deal is on the ballot this fall, not the least of which is this important education issue.
