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Obama asks to raise school standards in US
- 02-23-2010
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By Darlene Superville/La Opinión (text in Spanish)
President Barack Obama said on Monday that the U.S.'s preeminent position in the world is at play in the effort to substantially improve the quality of education and global competitiveness and called on the states' governments to raise their strongest tool: money. Obama said that he will 'not accept second place for the United States," during a speech before the states governors in the White House. The President stressed that the nation is falling behind in critical areas in education such as high school math and science. (more...)
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