_________________________________________________________________________
                                  |  Percent who favor initiatives
            Goals 2000            |______________________________________
           initiatives            |        |           |Public |Nonpublic
                                  |National|No children|school | school
                                  | totals | in school |parents| parents
__________________________________|________|___________|_______|_________
                1                 |   2    |     3     |   4   |    5
__________________________________|________|___________|_______|_________
                                  |        |           |       |
Assistance with high school studen|        |           |       |
  college expenses in return for  |        |           |       |
  performing some kind of public  |        |           |       |
  service ........................|     81 |        80 |    83 |      83
                                  |        |           |       |
Greater emphasis on, including    |        |           |       |
  additional money for, work-study|        |           |       |
  vocational programs for high    |        |           |       |
  school students who do not plan |        |           |       |
  to go to college ...............|     79 |        78 |    82 |      74
                                  |        |           |       |
A large increase in funds for earl|        |           |       |
  childhood education in those    |        |           |       |
  public schools with the highest |        |           |       |
  percentage of children living   |        |           |       |
  in poverty .....................|     74 |        74 |    75 |      66
                                  |        |           |       |
More effort to reach agreement on |        |           |       |
  academic achievement goals for  |        |           |       |
  children at various stages      |        |           |       |
  of school, without specifying   |        |           |       |
  how schools should reach these  |        |           |       |
  goals ..........................|     63 |        62 |    66 |      56
__________________________________|________|___________|_______|_________

SOURCE: Phi Delta Kappan, "The Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools," September 1994. (This table was prepared April 1995.)