Written by Sutherland Institute
March 20, 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (March 20, 2024) – Most likely voters in Utah strongly support curriculum transparency policies in public schools, a recent survey from Sutherland Institute and Y2 Analytics finds.
Respondents shared their views about three different approaches for implementing curriculum transparency: requiring schools to share grade curriculum with parents, rewarding teachers for sharing lesson plans with parents, and requiring teachers to share lesson plans with parents.
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79% of likely voters support rewarding teachers for transparency, but only 63% of voters would support making that a requirement of teachers.
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73% of Republicans and 67% of Independents support requiring teachers to share lesson plans with parents, while only 29% of Democrats support it.
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As household income increases, support for transparency decreases, but most voters in all income brackets still support transparency measures.
The findings are highlighted in Sutherland’s newest issue brief, available here:
Sutherland Institute partners with Y2 Analytics to regularly survey likely voters in Utah about important public policy and political issues. This new issue brief measures the attitudes of likely voters toward curriculum transparency in public schools across Utah.
For more information about Sutherland research on education, visit our new issue page:Â sutherlandinstitute.org/policy-education/
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