As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer prepares Tuesday to announce her long-awaited plan for reopening K-12 schools, a University of Michigan survey found one-third of Michigan parents may not send their children to public school this fall due to COVID-19 concerns.

The survey, which assessed parental plans for in-person school in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, found health-related concerns were among the most common reasons cited by parents who did not plan to send their child. They also had concerns about too many restrictions that young children would not understand, according to UM researchers.

The online survey, published Friday by UM’s Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center, queried 1,193 parents of school-aged children in the three states June 12-22.

In Michigan, 66.7% of those surveyed said they likely planned to send their children to school this fall, 12.4% said they likely would not send them and 20% said they were unsure of their plans.

Source: Survey: One-third of parents may not send kids to school