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Survey results reflect public's anger over education issues | California Watch

Survey results reflect public's anger over education issues | California Watch

Survey results reflect public's anger over education issues

The budget crisis' impact on education has caused concern to swell and public opinion to shrink among a majority of Californians.
Roughly 62 percent believe insufficient state funding is going to their public school, a 12 point jump from last year, according to the results of a survey released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Eighty-five percent believe the quality of education is a problem. Fifty-two percent felt it is a "big" problem.
Those surveyed by the PPIC also thought Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials were performing