Amid the coronavirus pandemic that has pushed many K-12 classes online, parental backing for having their children take some high school classes virtually has hit 73% in an annual education survey's latest poll results — 17 percentage points higher than it was just over a decade ago. In addition, the poll by the policy journal Education Next indicates that overall support for the nation's schools has grown significantly in the last half-dozen years, even as those the survey called political populists are much more skeptical of them.
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