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Only 29% of Americans Have Great Deal of Confidence in Public Schools [POLL]
Confidence in America's Public Schools is slipping according to a new Gallup poll. Last year at this time, 33% of Americans had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in them, this year it's slipped to another all-time low.
In 1973, Gallup's confidence poll showed 58% of Americans had a lot of confidence in the public schools.
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