Satisfaction with K-12 education ties all-time low in new poll

A new poll says the public is overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of K-12 education in the United States.

The poll from Gallup found that 63% of people are not satisfied with the quality of K-12 education, while only 36% said they are satisfied, including a meager 8% who said they were "completely satisfied."

According to the polling organization, the 36% satisfaction rate is tied for the lowest ever recorded, in 2000, by the group, which has been tracking the metric for 24 years. The primary cause of the low satisfaction was an abysmal 25% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who reported being satisfied with the quality of K-12 education.

Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 44% expressed some level of satisfaction with the current state of K-12 education, but 55% still said they were at least "somewhat dissatisfied."

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