A new national survey tracking public sentiment toward schools revealed a slight loss in confidence in the country’s public schools, strong support for improving teacher pay, and wide opposition to the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education. These are some of the findings released on Tuesday from this year’s PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, an annual survey since 1969 produced by The Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport Universit...