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Wednesday, September 16, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Republicans ignore educators' survey
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates agreed with the National Education Association on most school issues, but most Republican hopefuls did not answer its political questionnaire, the union said yesterday.
Kenneth F. Melley, NEA's top political operative, said the Republicans might want to reconsider their standoffness in the wake of the Rev. Pat Robertson's victory Satur-
a straw poll of GOP activists in Iowa.
"I if were one of them, I'd seriously look at what happened in Iowa," said Melley. "I'd try to find a way in which I could get the support of some credible institution like the NEA that has organization on the ground."
Although the 1.85 million-member union has been closely identified with Democratic candidates in recent elections, Melley said the union had 600,000 Republican members looking for a candidate to support.
Although Rep. Jack Kemp, R.N.Y. declined to fill out the questionnaire, he has agreed to be interviewed Sept. 28. Melley said, and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole might be interviewed on camera.
Dole was the only Republican contender who filled out any of the NEA's questionnaire, and he left blank 20 items asking whether he agreed or disagreed with the union's lobbying goals.
The union released a scorecard on the candidates' responses to its questions, as well as videotapes of interviews NEA President Mary Hatwood Futrelr conducted with seven Democrats.
Unlike Walter Mondale, who said during the 1984 primaries that he could not think of a single issue where he disagreed with the NEA, all of the 1988 crop of Democrats had at least one disagreement with the liberal union.
But they were mostly minor differences over tax or pension issues. The Democrats were solidly on the NEA's side on educational and social issues.
Possible candidate Patricia Schroeder, a congresswoman from Colorado, disagreed with the union's support for keeping the Education Department in the Cabinet, and Sen. John McCain, the sole Democrat to part company with the NEA on its call for a mutual, verifiable nuclear freeze.
The questionnaire, Melley said, in a sense forced the candidates to write their education platforms back in early August.
All the Democratic candidates sided with the NEA on boosting federal school aid, opposing programs that shift funds from public schools or burden public school administrators, resisting a constitutional amendment, and supporting the official language, supporting an Equal Rights Amendment and a civil rights restoration act and standing against tuition tax credits.
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