A Study of Public School Choice Parents and students are very unhappy with the public education offered to them by the government of United States. 51 percent of respondents to the latest Gallup Poll rated their community's public schools with a grade of C or less, and 66 percent said that local schools had either stayed the same or gotten worse in the last five years. The result of these feelings is a demand for reform. Local, state and federal agencies create initiatives, recommendations and policies in hopes of meeting the public’s demand for a system that can effectively educate our