School vouchers lag by 20 points in latest poll

Salt Lake Tribune:

A new Salt Lake Tribune poll finds little chance that voters will approve Utah's education voucher program in Tuesday's referendum.

Fifty-six percent of likely voters polled said they would vote against the voucher program to 36 percent who said they support the state subsidies to private schools. Only 8 percent remained undecided. [...]

But [Lisa] Johnson [of Utahns for Public Schools] said the poll shows voters apparently like reforms — merit pay, open enrollment and charter schools — that are undertaken within the public school system.

"These are things we can do through the public schools that would serve all students and wouldn't create a second education system to be supported by taxpayers," Johnson said.