Word: federales
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Faced with that daunting challenge, Bush and the Governors were able to reach an unprecedented agreement to set national performance standards and goals for the schools and to measure each state's progress. Only a few years ago, such a step would have provoked loud complaints against federal encroachment on...
Bush won some respect for attaching his prestige to the knotty education issue, but many Governors are still waiting to see whether the President will make the tough choices necessary to establish education as a genuine priority. Some wonder, for example, why he retains the so far ineffectual Lauro Cavazos...
Most important, on a day when Congress voted to fulfill Bush's campaign promise to reduce capital-gains taxes for the wealthy, Governors of both parties pressed for information on when Bush would redeem another campaign pledge: to fund fully the Head Start program for needy preschoolers. Head Start has...
The prospects for a substantial increase in federal education funding were dim, however. For weeks, Bush and his aides had rejected the notion that an education President should spend more on education. A senior White House official pointed out that federal funds account for only about 7% of total spending...
Although most Governors agreed that more federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape...