This paper answers specific questions about present and future issues concerning the undereducation of Hispanic students. The following topics are covered: (1) the educational status of Hispanics; (2) the role of federal education programs--including Head Start, Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, Chapter 1, Pell Grants, and bilingual education programs--in the education of Hispanics; (3) what an Executive Order on Hispanic Education might achieve; and (4) how the Executive Order might help the nation as a whole. Two charts depicting the number of school years completed by Hispanics and non-Hispanics 25 years old and over, derived from 1970 and 1980 census data and from the March 1988 Current Population Survey, are included, along with a chart depicting the educational achievement of Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics in 1984. (JS)