Impact on Public Education System: Removing books from public school libraries determined to be harmful or inconsistent with community values (April 2023)
category | Total |
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Will improve public education | 36% |
Will hurt public education | 40% |
Will have no impact on public education | 13% |
Don't know/No opinion | 11% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 17% | 22% | 55% |
Will hurt public education | 65% | 33% | 20% |
Will have no impact on public education | 9% | 17% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 27% | 9% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 10% | 26% | 17% |
Will hurt public education | 81% | 53% | 65% |
Will have no impact on public education | 7% | 16% | 7% |
Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 5% | 11% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 52% | 48% | 59% |
Will hurt public education | 19% | 20% | 20% |
Will have no impact on public education | 19% | 21% | 12% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 11% | 8% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 16% | 27% | 57% |
Will hurt public education | 73% | 39% | 18% |
Will have no impact on public education | 7% | 16% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 19% | 9% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 15% | 16% | 16% |
Will hurt public education | 72% | 69% | 77% |
Will have no impact on public education | 5% | 10% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 5% | 4% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 46% | 53% | 68% |
Will hurt public education | 27% | 20% | 9% |
Will have no impact on public education | 14% | 19% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 13% | 9% | 9% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 41% | 32% | 29% |
Will hurt public education | 40% | 42% | 36% |
Will have no impact on public education | 11% | 14% | 17% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 12% | 18% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 42% | 31% |
Will hurt public education | 35% | 44% |
Will have no impact on public education | 14% | 12% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 13% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 36% | 36% | 36% |
Will hurt public education | 37% | 43% | 36% |
Will have no impact on public education | 14% | 10% | 18% |
Don't know/No opinion | 13% | 10% | 10% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 40% | 36% | 31% | 41% |
Will hurt public education | 40% | 40% | 42% | 36% |
Will have no impact on public education | 6% | 12% | 16% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 14% | 12% | 11% | 8% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 36% | 38% | 34% | 47% | 31% | 35% |
Will hurt public education | 32% | 30% | 39% | 32% | 52% | 47% |
Will have no impact on public education | 18% | 14% | 16% | 15% | 10% | 8% |
Don't know/No opinion | 14% | 17% | 11% | 6% | 7% | 10% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 50% | 32% | 19% | 15% |
Will hurt public education | 25% | 40% | 62% | 70% |
Will have no impact on public education | 14% | 15% | 9% | 9% |
Don't know/No opinion | 11% | 14% | 10% | 7% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Will improve public education | 55% | 37% | 8% | 22% |
Will hurt public education | 22% | 40% | 77% | 25% |
Will have no impact on public education | 14% | 15% | 9% | 10% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 9% | 7% | 43% |