A new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies found just 35% of voters gave their local district a grade of either A or B.
Californians’ views of their local public schools have declined dramatically over the last decade.
Those results don’t surprise Raj Singh, a parent who pulled his son from the Cupertino Union School District and put him in private school in part because his local public school was slow to reopen during the pandemic. And he thinks COVID-19 provided a wake-up call for many parents. “There’s simply a lot of disgruntled parents in the community for any number of reasons,” Singh said. “It’s crossing all partisan lines.”
Views vary somewhat by region, with just 35% of voters in the San Francisco Bay Area giving their local schools an A or B, but 50% of Orange County voters giving their local schools similarly high marks.