NCLB Seen as Largely Ineffective, PDK-Gallup Poll Finds

Some organizations questioned the results of the poll and suggested that PDK, a professional educators' organization that they believe is ideologically aligned with teachers' unions, was trying to preserve the status quo through the wording of its survey questions. The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, an Indianapolis-based foundation that advocates vouchers and other school choice programs, and the Washington-based Cato Institute, a think tank that promotes a free-market philosophy, argue that the wording misleads poll interpreters into thinking that the public opposes school choice.