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                                        |    Percent who favor position
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                                        |       |       |       |       |              1995
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                Question                | 1989  | 1990  | 1991  | 1993  |     |   No    | Public  |Nonpublic
                                        |       |       |       |       |Total|children | school  | school
                                        |       |       |       |       |     |in school| parents | parents
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                   1                    |   2   |   3   |   4   |   5   |  6  |    7    |    8    |    9
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                                        |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
Do you favor or oppose allowing         |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  students and their parents to         |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  choose which public schools in the    |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  community the students attend         |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  regardless of where they live?........|    60 |    62 |    62 |    65 |  69 |      69 |      69 |      78
                                        |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
Do you favor or oppose allowing         |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  students and parents to choose        |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  a private school to attend at         |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  public expense?.......................|   --- |   --- |    26 |    24 |  33 |      30 |      38 |      44
                                        |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
Do you think private schools that accept|       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  government tuition payments for       |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  these students should be accountable  |       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
  to public authorities or not?.........|       |       |       |       |     |         |         |
    Yes, should be accountable..........|   --- |   --- |   --- |    63 |  73 |     --- |     --- |     ---
    No, should not be accountable.......|   --- |   --- |   --- |    34 |  24 |     --- |     --- |     ---
    Don't know..........................|   --- |   --- |   --- |     3 |   3 |     --- |     --- |     ---
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SOURCE: Phi Delta Kappan, "The Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools," September 1995. (This table was prepared April 1996.)