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Survey: Fewer Americans Like Charter Schools

American's support for charter schools has dropped significantly in the past year. But there is less opposition to other kinds of school choice, including vouchers, according to a new survey by Education Next.

Education Next is a journal published by Harvard's Kennedy School and Stanford University. For many years, it has taken a survey of public opinions about education issues.

This year, the report says that only 39 percent of people who took the survey wanted to see more charter schools – a roughly 12 point drop from last year.

The report also notes that opposition to vouchers has dropped from 44 percent to 37 percent.

School choice and charter schools

School choice allows public education funds to pay for 1.schools or services that fit the needs of students. It refers to the idea of giving parents and students more choices about where to study.

9分句子结构学习点：

School choice allows public education funds to pay for schools or services that fit the needs of students.

A allows B to do sth (that clause.) 星级：★★★★★

allow句型是雅思写作里面5星级常用句型，当观点是描述一个东西是好的，我们可以说，“这个东西可以让谁完成什么事情，所以他是好的。”这时就可以使用allow句型，可以写成：a allows b to do sth, 这是个基本结构。6分同学使用这个基本结构就行了。7+分的同学（已经能写出完整无错句子的同学），allow句型还可以在句子的末尾根据句子的需要，添加that从句结构。因为allow句型已经有一定的长度，如果句子末尾出现从句结构，必定不能太长，一个简单、短小的从句，才是合适的。（并不是所有的从句都是长句子，相反，在大部分的文章当中，that和who从句都是简短的。）在英文写作的概念里，从句是为句子真正所表达的内容服务的，不可取的做法是为了使用从句而使用从句；从雅思写作的评分标准来看，句子的复杂多变也不是指是否使用从句或者是从句的长短，而是指整体的句式变化。

1.school or services that fit the needs of students满足学生需求的学校或服务，动名词组合：fit the needs

A charter school is a school that receives a special charter, or written rules, from a state government. These schools, a type of school choice, are publicly funded but operate independently from school districts.

President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to 2.expand school choice. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has made school choice a top issue for the department. But some charter school supporters have feared that Trump's arguments for school choice could actually hurt the movement.

2.expand school choice扩大学校的选择，动词用expand

The authors of the Education Next study say 3.the decline in support for charter schools does not 4.have a direct connection to Trump. They say that support for charters fell almost equally across party lines. Support for charters dropped 11 percent among Democrats and 13 percent among Republicans.

3.the decline in support for支持的下降，support介词用for

4.have a direct connection to something 和什么东西有直接的关联

Martin West is an associate professor of education at Harvard University and one of the authors of the report. "We can't say definitively what is responsible for the decline," he said.

West added that opposition from 5.teachers unions and Democrats may have played a role. In addition, 6.debates over the usefulness of charters may have hurt charters' image. "These developments may have led to a souring of the charter brand," he said.

5.teachers unions教师工会

6.debates over something对于什么事情的辩论，介词用over

Public debates about charter schools

The results of the survey have not discouraged charter school proponents.

Nina Rees heads the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. She said that more than 300 public charter schools opened last year. And there are now over 6,900 charter schools serving 3 million students 7.across the country.

7.across the country全国各地的

"The opinions about charter schools that matter most are the opinions of parents and students who have chosen charter schools," Rees said.

Some experts say that Trump has had an effect on the public debates about charter schools.

Robin Lake heads the Center on Reinventing Public education, a research and policy organization. She said the Trump administration's statements have deepened partisan tensions around charter schools.

Lake explained that she had heard from many people that "schools have a lot of conversations with parents that they didn't use to have about why charter schools are public and why they are not a partisan issue."

Rick Hess is a director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute. He said Trump and DeVos may have turned school choice into a much more divisive issue than it needed to be. He noted they may have been too 8.critical of public schools.

8.be critical of something批判什么东西的

"Sometimes the way these things get talked about, you can wind up alienating people who might be with you," Hess said.

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