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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaeho0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points SPoillino shows that oVe>r the past 20 years, Democrats have consistently le Republicans in voter confidence on the issue of education, with an average margin of 5 pours. However, over he pat two years--as fierce debates raced over conterrtrous issues such as school ciosures, schoo, rnasking, and critical race theory-Democrats have lost voter confidence on education and are now at their lovest point in at ieast twco decades, a Nonetneless, Republican gains have ro been corrnensurate with DerIocratic losses. On education, an increasing share of voters currently have confidence in neither party. Cing back a half century or more, Denocrats have generally enjoyed a substantial lead on edit ua in. The par' aroad support for more education spend- ing, outspoken erbrace of public education, and close ties to teachers unions and the education establishment have usually added up to a heirs, advantage, one that became more Significant in recent decades as education assumed a more visi-- ble, national profile.' Today, though, Democratic stancs on education may be playing differently. Fierce debates over school closures, school masking policies, critical race theory, gender policy, and srndent loan far- giveness appear to be producing headwinds for Democrats on an issue they've long owned. Polli r by Morning Consult found that the Democratic lead on education shrank froi 2a -points in Janu- ary 2021 to seven points in Novenber 202 ' The Washington PosL---A BC News poll put the Demo- cratic lead on education at 3ust three points in the fall of 20 1 And a recent Wan Street Journal poll found tat lead had declined from nine pirnts in Novenver 2c21 to jst five points in March 22.4 here s also anecdotal evidence that Demo- crats are facinag challenges on education. In uber- progressive San Francisco, over 70 percent of voters supported a recall effort that ousted three school board members who were seen as unduly focused on social justice and insufficiently concerned with managing the budget and reopening schools5 Likewise, the Virginia gubernatorial contest in fill 2021 was ultimately-fairly or not-treated by many pundits as something of a referendum on current tights in education> In that contest, of couse, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin defeated fofmer Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a state that President oe Biden won by double digits in 2 c20. Puy Teixeira, political scientist at the Center for Arerican Progress and coauthor o The l 'EsergPig Democratic Mawority, argues that Democrats are

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