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China quake awakens new fears for school safety
- 04-21-2010
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Education Week
Last week's earthquake in western China destroyed or left in critical condition more than two-thirds of the schools at the center of the disaster, bringing fresh fears two years after an even larger quake left thousands of students dead. The government last year launched a vast project to inspect and strengthen schools across the country, and about 70,000 of them need work to be made quake-proof, a top education official indicated last month. But some people, including students who survived last week's quake in Yushu county, have angrily asked why schools in the remote Tibetan community hadn't been fixed already. The quake's overall death toll rose to 2,064 Tuesday. (more...)
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