without further ado, paul diperna with the survey's findings. >> good afternoon. my name is paul diperna. i'm the research director at the friedman foundation for education choice. we're a nonpartisan group that conducts issues. we use our research base to inform and educate legislators policymakers, advocates, particularly at the state levels around the country. so before we get too far, i just want to give a special thanks to rick hess, mike, the whole aei education policy studies team for hosting today's event. it's a great opportunity to share some of these results and findings and what we've been learning. today we're releasing the latest installment of the schooling in america survey. we've been doing this for a few years now, reporting on various topics in k-12. before we get into the slideses because polls and surveys can just throw at you a sea of data, lots of charts and it can be overwhelming. i thought we should step back and try to get a better understanding of what some of the social, maybe political developments have been around the country over the

without further ado, paul diperna with the survey's findings. >> good afternoon. my name is paul diperna. i'm the research director at the friedman foundation for education choice. we're a nonpartisan group that conducts issues. we use our research base to inform and educate legislators policymakers advocates, particularly at the state levels around the country. so before we get too far i just want to give a special thanks to rick hess mike the whole aei education policy studies team for hosting today's event. it's a great opportunity to share some of these results and findings and what we've been learning. today we're releasing the latest installment of the schooling in america survey. we've been doing this for a few years now, reporting on various topics in k-12. before we get into the slideses because polls and surveys can just throw at you a sea of data lots of charts and it can be overwhelming. i thought we should step back and try to get a better understanding of what some of the social, maybe political developments have been around the country over the past

mcshane: paul, it seemed like you wanted to jump in. mr. diperna: just to piggyback on what you were saying. this was somewhat of a surprising finding. we do state polling as well. a handful of state surveys every year. we've broken this out in other states. even state by state it's different. the type of responses you get and how they list out under different school types. so if researchers always like to look for reasons and for further research and exploration. this item in our survey suggested and it's very hard to come up with any concrete conclusions. but it does maybe set the table for further survey work or other types of research, looking into, are there different cultures? surrounding regular public district traditional schools compared to private school culture, charter school culture. are there any real significant differences and reasons for choosing those types of schools. that does lend out for maybe some future research. mr. mcshane: and, matt, this is interesting. the point you brought up is well taken. investment and time to be ta