Likely voters support bond measure
January 27, 2020
More than half of likely voters support the school facilities bond measure that will be on California’s March 3 primary ballot, according to a new poll. In the Public Policy Institute of California’s annual statewide survey, 53 percent of likely voters support the measure to authorize $15 billion in bonds for construction and modernization of public education facilities, while 36 percent oppose, and 10 percent are undecided.  Support has increased since November 2019, when 48 percent said yes, 36 percent said no and 16 percent were undecided. Today, Democratic likely voters (78 percent) are far more likely than independents (40 percent) and Republicans (26 percent) to support the measure. Support is higher among likely voters age 18 to 34 (76 percent) than among other age groups (50 percent age 35 to 54, 46 percent age 55 and older). “Support for the Proposition 13 state school bond is now above 50 percent, with strong support evident among Democratic and younger likely voters,” said Mark Baldassare, PPIC president and CEO. The survey also showed that the homelessness crisis has captured Californians’ attention, with 20 percent of adults saying it is the most important issue for the governor and state Legislature to work on, up from 6 percent last year. Five percent of survey respondent named education, schools and teachers as the most important issue, down from 11 percent last year. Californians also expressed that K-12 education should be the top priority for state spending (39 percent of adults) in equal measure with health and human services (another 39 percent of adults), while higher education (13 percent) and prisons and corrections (6 percent) received fewer responses. Support for education spending is down from last year, when 46 percent of Californians named K-12 education as a top funding priority. When it comes to the state’s $5.6 billion surplus, a majority (51 percent) of Californians want to spend it on education and health and human services. Read the full survey at
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