I want to hear their opinions of what teachers should be getting paid and what they're going to do for the teachers. They are less likely to say that education in the state has improved in the past few years and more likely to say it has gotten worse. Her two sons now attend the same high school Clinton and Gore helped wire. The Times asked the four leading presidential candidates to answer the same questions that were included in its poll of likely voters from the East Bay's centrist regions. Click here to read the candidates' responses.
Many centrist voters have little loyalty to the political parties.
Sherman, a Republican, voted for GOP U.S. Sen. Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election and for former Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley in this year's primary. Callahan, also a Republican, voted for Democrat Bill Clinton in 1996 and Republican John McCain in this year's primary. Both are undecided how they will vote in November. It didn't used to be like this. In 1980, the year Republican Ronald Reagan was elected president, the federal government provided 10 percent of the operating money for kindergarten through 12th grade education.