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...remains unclear which party stands to benefit from sounding off on the percentage issue. Neither George W. nor Jeb Bush have made much hay of it lately, probably because it's a racially divisive subject. The NAACP and Urban League are firmly against the use of race-neutral percentages - NAACP head Kwesi Mfume recently called the policy "Jim Crow Jr." What's more, this is just the type of center-hugging policy that could drive right-leaning voters to the Reform party come election day. At the same time, it is a difficult policy for Democrats to attack since...
Bush's "affirmative access" plan is catching on around the country. California, which, like Texas, no longer uses affirmative action, adopted a class-rank plan last year, while public college leaders in Florida approved a top-20-percent policy under Governor Jeb Bush in late February...
Beyond that bit of illogic, opponents are worried that the voucher program would drain resources from the schools that need them the most. Their cause got a boost last week, when a Florida judge ruled that Governor Jeb Bush's state voucher plan--the model for his brother's national program--violates the state constitution and must be dropped. The judge's ruling was narrow and may not mean that George W.'s plan would face a similar fate. But even if it did, Bush wouldn't stop talking about vouchers, because they help conservatives swallow his federal activism...
...church and state and leaves the neediest kids stranded in underperforming schools - are being hotly debated across the country, and voucher proponents are already lining up national experts for their appeal. But the real star power in the case comes from the program's chief booster, Florida governor Jeb Bush. What's more, vouchers are one of the most controversial portions of big brother George W.'s presidential platform - and are vehemently opposed by Al Gore. Dubya likes to cite Jeb's program as a model for his campaign promise of promoting "school accountability...
...party's right wing--a divider, not a uniter. By the time Michigan voters were going to the polls last Tuesday, McCain had taken Bush's visit to Fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and turned it into a symbol of the entire race. Bush, whose brother Jeb converted to Roman Catholicism, was forced to stand up and deny that he was an anti-Catholic bigot...