A
delegation of 15 American education, business, and political leaders traveled to France for two weeks to study the country's preschool system,
called écoles maternelles, which provides all the country's children, ages 3 to 5, with a free, voluntary
early education.
In the
early stages of climate - treaty talks in Bali, conference leaders scurried among
delegations and came up with a document
called «Non-Paper by the Co-Facilitators.»