A Stark Partisan Divide Over Schools

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that 52% of Americans believe today’s K-12 students are receiving an “only fair” or “poor” education — in large part because 62% of Republicans think that U.S. education is “worse” now than when they were in school.

In contrast, Democrats are more than twice as likely as Republicans to say today’s K-12 students are receiving a better education than they did (40%) and less than half as likely as Republicans to say today’s education is worse (28%).