A flash poll from the conservative Civitas Institute found that the majority of respondents opposed the Wake County school board's firing of Superintendent Tony Tata.
According to the results released Thursday, 59 percent of the 400 registered voters contacted said they disapproved of the firing. Only 28 percent said they approved. Thirteen percent weren't sure.
Tata also had an higher approval rating than the school board.
A total of 51 percent said they approved of the job Tata had done as superintendent. That was followed by 26 percent who disapproved and 23 percent who weren't sure.
A total of 28 percent said they approved of the job the school board has done. That was followed by 56 percent who disapproved and 16 percent who weren't sure.
Other questions included Tata's favorability rating, opinion about the severance agreement given to Tata, whether voters had more confidence in the school board or commissioners on funding and spending and how should students be assigned to schools.
The poll was conducted Wednesday, the day after the board vote. It has an error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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A Civitas...
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 16:01 — bpuli9999poll that says Tata's (who is unaffiliated, btw - he is not a republican as many would assume) "approval" rating is (was) not good is like Fox news saying Romney is lagging Obama. Does not fit their worldview.
Certainly it is a better representation of the truth
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 16:54 — FSandYOUthan the BS wral pulled with their manipulated and made up numbers.
So...
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 16:10 — Bob_SconceThey posted the methodology and the quesions. You might be right that they wouldn't have published it if the results had turned out differently. But, that doesn't diminish the results.
The gaping chasm between conservative and liberal
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 15:07 — Athey01opinons, as evidenced by this poll, is reflected in our current BOE. The conservatives and the liberals do not share the same core beliefs.. Since there are no moderates on the BOE, we will continue to have a dysfunctional BOE.
The poll says nothing like
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 15:45 — woodstockThe poll says nothing like that. The issues surrounding WCPSS is not a conservative vs. liberal thing. It is radical far left-wing vs. the rest of the people thing. The board was in agreement on a lot things including the implementation of the choice plan UNTIL Evans, Kushner, Martin and Brannon were elected (voters got a 4 for 3 deal last election... lucky them!). THAT is when all the dysfunction was created.
In the poll results, if you click on the crosstab button,
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 17:33 — Athey01it breaks down each question by the following; gender, age, race, party afflilation, ideology, and parent of child. When you contrast the ideology, with the response to each question, it confirms the fact that there is a stark difference between the viewpoint of conservatives vs. liberals..imo.