The survey, by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), found the majority of teachers disagree with Labour and Tory proposals to increase the number of schools outside local authority control.
Teachers were also unsupportive of both party's plans to encourage mergers and takeovers of underperforming schools, with 46 per cent or teachers calling this a bad idea.
Labour wants parents to be able to trigger a ballot to bring in a new leadership team if they are unhappy with standards at their child's school. But 80 per cent of teachers warned this was a bad idea.
The survey found that teachers' top priorities for an incoming government include more support for teachers to do their job and fewer new initiatives from Whitehall.
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