The Charles Butt Foundation’s newly released 2024 Texas Education Poll finds Texans are overwhelmingly supportive of increasing state funding for a range of initiatives in K-12 public schools, including expanding career and technical training for students, providing tutoring for students with learning gaps and providing classroom support staff for teachers.
Eighty-four percent of public school parents in the state are satisfied with the quality of their child’s education and 70 percent give their community’s public schools an A or B grade, up from 56 percent in the Foundation’s inaugural 2020 poll. Texans also are supportive of teachers, with 75 percent saying they should have a great deal or good amount of influence in what’s taught in their community’s public schools, more than say so for other groups.
The extensive survey also explores Texans’ support for increasing state funding for various wraparound services, factors in school quality, their engagement and involvement with their local public schools, parent-teacher communication and school vouchers, among other topics.
We’re proud to have produced the fifth annual Texas Education Poll for the Charles Butt Foundation. See the full report here.