Perhaps no issue better reveals one of the growing divisions in the Republican Party than education policy. It wasn't that long ago - 1996, in fact - that the party platform called for the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education in favor of a smaller federal government and greater power for states. But in the past decade, beginning with President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, Republicans have seemed to be challenging Democrats to see who can win the misguided race to federalize education. How did Republicans come to this place? In part, Republicans fell victim to the age-old notion that in a crisis, the federal government must come to the rescue. With America's test scores lagging behind in international comparisons, U.S. policymakers increasingly saw kinder...
After his first election in 1998, [Hugo Chavez] initiated a democratic constitutional reform process in which all political parties participated in drafting the new Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Even Chavez's staunch opponents applaud the new constitution as durable and used its very mechanisms to mount the unsuccessful 2004 Recall Referendum. (Chavez won 59 percent of the vote; former President Jimmy Carter and staff of the Carter Center verified it as a free, fair, and open election.) Compared to the plight of the growing number of poor in Latin America, Venezuela's social investment programs create a stark contrast to failed neo-liberal economic policies among its neighbors. President Chavez has referred to Venezuela's new economic relationships as a "Bolivari...
... the Jose Marti Award recognizing the elimination of illiteracy in Venezuela. What has Chavez done t...
... resulting from the desire to eradicate illiteracy and extend educational opportunities to the poor a... jurisprudence and its effects on the elimination of de jure segregation, the war against racial dis...
... is not only about tackling the serious illiteracy problem -- affecting about 55 percent of Morocco's...The target date for the elimination of illiteracy is 2015. . Youssoufi also spoke of a...
... came later, only because complete elimination of the direct/indirect effects dichotomy and accep... price of scientific and technological illiteracy, with our productivity declining, our industrial b...
International Horizons - Adapted from article in - La Follette Policy Report
..., poverty reduction, or the elimination of illiteracy can best be achieved if the national...
... the circumstances- "the ignorance and illiteracy of the defendants, their youth, the circumstances ... was a common law attribute, and the elimination of language attaching to jury trials their "accust...
...One reason is the high rate of illiteracy in several Arab countries. The other reason is the... of adult education should be twofold: elimination of illiteracy, and the continuation of learning wi...
FACES OF HOPE
...Mission: Is dedicated to the elimination of unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, inadequate h...
EUGENE KANE Agency carries on with critical mission
... says OIC-GM "is dedicated to the elimination of unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, inadequate h...
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