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Advice for ’08 candidates seeking Hispanic votes: ignore education at your peril. It was the most important issue to more than 1,000 registered Hispanic voters—beating out the war in Iraq, health care, and immigration in a recent survey commissioned by the National Council of La Raza.
Ninety percent of Hispanic voters said improving public education must be a “very important” priority for the President. Roughly half said that public schools were “poor” or “mediocre.” They don’t blame the teachers, though. More than 60 percent said teachers do a good job.
NUMBERS OF BLACK STUDENTS DIP IN NEW ORLEANS
About 89 percent of the students returning to schools in New Orleans last month were Black, down from 93 percent before Hurricane Katrina, according to a report analyzing how the city is recovering. Of the 128 public schools in Orleans Parish, 58 were reopened by the end of the last school year, and another 25 were expected to open this fall.
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