“The scapegoating of teachers must stop, and collective responsibility must start,” Weingarten said. “This should be a wake-up call to education leaders and policy makers that all of us have to do our part. Of course teachers are important, but they can’t do it all—and policy makers have to stop blaming them.”
People in the poll were closely divided over whether teachers should be allowed to strike, with just over half in favor.
The AP-Stanford poll on education was conducted Sept. 23-30 by Abt SRBI Inc. It involved interviews on landline and cellular telephones with 1,001 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Stanford’s participation in this project was made possible by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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