To follow up on my post below, I've been hunting around for poll results about vouchers. Here's the first one I found through the magic of Google. The poll claims to find a wide disparity between white and black voters on the issue. But, if one takes a closer look at the question actually asked this isn't surprising at all:
Question: Here are some ways to deal with failing schools and African American students who are not doing well in school How good an idea do you think each is? Would giving families financial aid so they can take their kids out of failing public schools and send them to private schools be an excellent, good, fair, or poor idea?
There are two things wrong with this question. First, it implies the program would only apply to African American students. Second, it implies that this is simply an additional program and not a transfer of funds out of the public schools. So, we get disparate poll results when whites and blacks are asked about what is essentially a race-targeted welfare program. Reads like a Frank Luntz special.
Even given this, only 54% of African Americans with children in schools (only 400 were polled this question) say this is an excellent or good idea.
