Close Up: Candidates' Votes Count With Public
Simply calling oneself an "education candidate" is apparently no longer good enough to get elected.
That's one of the findings of a poll recently commissioned by the Public Education Network and Education Week , and the subject of this latest "Close Up" look at the poll results. Almost 90 percent of the registered voters who responded to the survey said the politicians they were most likely to support understand education issues, believe most decisions about schooling should be made by parents and teachers, and will stand firm on education funding in the face of budget cutbacks.
In the survey, titled "Accountability for All: What Voters Want From Education Candidates," 86 percent of the 800 respondents said an emphasis on the basics of reading, writing, and mathematics was another hallmark of a candidate they would vote...
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