New Orleans parents feel increasingly negative about NOLA Public Schools after a tumultuous year that included fallout from a $50 million financial crisis, according to an annual poll of the city’s parents and guardians.

About half of parents also said they would support a new tax to fund a teacher pay raise, echoing the leading candidates in New Orleans' mayoral race, while 20% of respondents said they would not support such a tax and the rest were unsure. At the same time, 83% of parents said they were worried about federal education funding cuts.

The poll also found that nearly half of parents believe public education in New Orleans has improved in the two decades since Hurricane Katrina, when the majority of the city’s schools were taken over by the state and eventually turned int

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