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SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Section 1

Funding Levels: Gifted and Talented
Question 1: How do you feel about the spending of public school funds for special instruction and homework programs for gifted and talented students? Do you feel that more public school funds should be spent on gifted and talented students than on average students -- or about the same amount? (Asked in: 1982, 1985, 1988.)
[Code: 641-SpeFG-1]

Funding Levels: Special Education
Question 2: How do you feel about spending for students with special education needs, such as those with mental and physical disabilities? In your opinion, is America spending too much of its total education budget on students with special needs, too little, or about the right amount? (Asked in: 1996.)
[Code: 639-SpeFS-2]

Immersion/Special Placement: Children with Learning Problems
Question 3: In your opinion, should children with learning problems be put in the same classrooms with other students, or should they be put in special classes of their own? (Asked in: 1995, 1998.)
[Code: 637-SpeIC-3]

Immersion/Special Placement: Effect on Other Students
Question 4: Do you think that including children with learning problems in the same classrooms with other students would have a positive effect on the other students, a negative effect, or would it not make much difference? (Asked in: 1995.)
[Code: 635-SpeIE-4]

Immersion/Special Placement: Effect on Special Students
Question 5: How about children with learning problems themselves? Do you think including them in classes with other students would have a positive effect on the children with learning problems, a negative effect, or would it not make much difference? (Asked in: 1995.)
[Code: 636-SpeIE-5]

Immersion/Special Placement: Gifted and Talented
Question 6: How do you feel about the placement of gifted and talented students in the local public schools? In your opinion, should gifted and talented students be placed in the same classes as other students, or should they be placed in separate classes? (Asked in: 1997.)
[Code: 647-SpeIG-6]

Immersion/Special Placement: Mental Handicapping Conditions
Question 7: In your opinion, should mentally handicapped children be put in the same classrooms with other students, or should they be put in special classes of their own? (Asked in: 1992.)
[Code: 644-SpeIM-7]

Immersion/Special Placement: Physical Handicapping Conditions
Question 8: In your opinion, should physically handicapped children be put in the same classrooms with other students, or should they be put in special classes of their own? (Asked in: 1992.)
[Code: 646-SpeIP-8]

Immigrant Students
Question 9: Just your impression, do there seem to be more children from other countries attending the public schools in your community today than in the past, fewer than in the past, or about the same number? (Asked in: 2005.)
[Code: 838-SpeIX-9]

Immigrant Students: Children of Illegal Immigrants
Question 10: Are you in favor of or opposed to providing free public education, school lunches, and other benefits to children of immigrants who are in the United States illegally? (In 2013, asked as: Do you favor or oppose providing free public education benefits to children of immigrants who are in the United States illegally?) (In 2014, asked of half the sample. The other half of the sample was asked: Do you favor or oppose providing public education to children of immigrants who are undocumented?)
In 2015 the question was asked as: Do you favor or oppose providing public education to children of immigrants who are undocumented?
(Asked in: 1995, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.)
[Code: 634-SpeIC-10]

Minority Students: Opportunities and Achievement Levels
Question 11: In your opinion, do black children and other minorities in this community have the same educational opportunities as white children? (Asked in: 1978, 1990, 2001.)
[Code: 645-SpeMO-11]

Minority Students: Rewarding Schools for Improving Minority Achievement
Question 12: Do you favor or oppose encouraging legislatures, school boards, and other governing bodies to provide special financial rewards to schools that demonstrate that they can increase academic achievement among minorities as measured by standardized tests? (Asked in: 1988.)
[Code: 649-SpeMR-12]

Non-English-Speaking Students: Best Approach
Question 13: Many families who come from other countries have school-age children who cannot speak English. Which one of the following three approaches do you think is the best way for the public schools to deal with non-English-speaking students? Require children to learn English in special classes at their parents' expense before they are enrolled in the public schools? Provide public school instruction in all subjects in the student's native languages while they learn English? Require students to learn English in public schools before they receive instruction in any other subjects? (Asked in: 1993, 1998, 2005.)
[Code: 632-SpeNB-13]

Non-English-Speaking Students: Instruction in Native Language
Question 14: Would you favor or oppose the local public schools' providing instruction in a student's native language, whatever it is, in order to help him or her become a more successful learner? (Asked in: 1988.)
[Code: 633-SpeNI-14]

Non-English-Speaking Students: Require English Instruction
Question 15: Many families who come from other countries have children who cannot speak English. Should or should not these children be required to learn English in special classes before they are enrolled in the public schools? (Asked in: 1980.)
[Code: 631-SpeNR-15]

Policies for Low-Income/Minority Students
Question 16: This card lists some suggestions that have been made for helping low-income and racial or ethnic minority students in school. As I read off each suggestion, one at a time, would you tell me whether you consider it an excellent, good, only fair, or poor way to help low-income and minority students? (Asked in: 1991.)
[Code: 648-SpePX-16]

Special Education: Cost and Extent
Question 17: How do you feel about the spending of public school funds for special instruction and homework programs for students with learning problems? Do you feel that more public school funds should be spent on students with learning problems than on average students -- or about the same amount? (Asked in: 1982, 1985, 1988.)
[Code: 640-SpeSC-17]

Question 18: Services for physically and mentally handicapped students cost more than regular school services. When the local schools are required to provide these special services by the federal government, should the federal government pay the extra cost, or not? (Asked in: 1977, 1995.)
[Code: 643-SpeSC-18]

Question 19: Just your best estimate, about what percentage of the public school students in the nation do you think receive special education? (Asked in: 1996.)
[Code: 642-SpeSC-19]

Question 20: Again, just your best estimate, about how much more, as a percentage, do you think it costs to educate a student receiving special education than a regular student? (Asked in: 1996.)
[Code: 638-SpeSC-20]

Rating the schools: High-Achieving Students
Question 21: Just based on your impression, or what you may have heard or read, how would you rate the job the local public schools are doing to meet the needs of their high-achieving students -- excellent, good, fair, poor, or bad? (Asked in: 2007.)
[Code: 845-SpeRH-21]

Children of Military Personnel
Question 22: Based upon what you know or have heard, are you aware of efforts by schools in your community to support students whose parents are currently serving in the United States armed forces, either active duty, reserve, or National Guard? (Asked in: 2011.)
[Code: 924-SpeCX-22]

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