Sentences with phrase «education summit between»

In interviews last week, educators for the most part gave the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» high marks for continuing the focus on national standards begun at the 1989 education summit between President Bush and the nation's governors.

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Chester E. Finn Jr.'s tiresome and laborious attempt to show that there are significant differences between President Clinton's education policies and those of former President George Bush («related story, 01/25/95) merely obscures the fact that Mr. Clinton's program basically follows through on the policies set by Mr. Bush and the governors at their famous education summit held in September 1989 at Charlottesville, Va..

For Long, the presence of both the Secretary of Education and Secretary of Labor at the summit was particularly significant, indicating a new link between the departments.

The disconnect between those math and science education proposals, signed into law by President Bush last summer, and federal officials» inability to fund them was a central topic at a summit of corporate leaders, scientists, and a select group of lawmakers who met here last week.

These efforts coalesced into a national strategy after a 1989 bipartisan summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, between governors and President George H. W. Bush, where leaders looked to standards as the first step toward achieving lofty national education goals.2