Select a Topic Politics Index Poll Vault Raw News President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at left, in the Oval Office of the White House where Bush was meeting with legislators on his education program today. So it's no surprise that pushing education reform is the first order of business under his administration. Supporting vouchers were 48 percent of respondents, with 50 percent against.
Blacks are no more supportive of the idea than whites.
And, in an important piece of ammunition for voucher opponents, that support drops sharply if it would mean less funding for public schools. In areas where the local public schools are not improving . . . In Texas, proposed abolishing the advancement of students from grade to grade if they failed state reading and math tests. Believes states, not the federal government, should create tests. Bilingual Education Says every child should learn English, but would allow for bilingual education.