IMPORTING REPUBLICANS:

Results of Hispanic poll stir voucher debate (Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, 4/01/05, San Antonio Express-News)

The poll targeted about 1,000 Hispanics in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Travis counties and asked about everything from teacher quality and segregation in schools to educators' expectations of Latino children.

It found that more than 70 percent statewide either strongly or somewhat favored a statewide school choice program and nearly 76 percent favored a limited pilot school choice program. Less than 29 percent of respondents described the overall quality of education that low-income, inner-city Latino children receive as excellent or good.

"In my opinion, it is a call for action," said Rebeca Nieves Huffman, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, the group that sponsored the poll.

Democrats servitude to Teachers unions should eventually cost them black and Hispanic votes.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 1, 2005 6:55 PM