This document offers the results of an education survey taken in the Dayton, Ohio, area in August 1998. The survey included telephone interviews with some 824 area residents. The principal results are presented first, organized under nine major headings: satisfaction level; problems in the schools; proposals for improvement; parental choice; charter schools; standards and testing; teachers and unions; school funding; and mandatory busing. The survey provides profiles of those who participated in the polling, including race, income level, and whether their children attended public or private schools. Specific areas addressed in the survey include issues involving discipline, overcrowding, bad teachers, and moving trouble-making students into alternative schools. The results indicate that most adults and parents in the Miami Valley and Dayton public schools oppose mandatory busing. They think teacher pay should be linked to teacher performance, favor the start of new community schools in suburban and rural areas, support choice in deciding on a public school for their children, believe their local school board is doing a good job, and give mostly A's and B's to the school their oldest child attends. These favorable ratings fall when those surveyed were asked to grade public schools in the nation as a whole. (RJM)