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EDUCATION, Page 54Report Card
When George Bush presented his 1990 budget last month, he
reaffirmed his pledge to be the "education President." Yet the
$36.5 billion he earmarked for education was $200 million less than
the amount requested in the last Reagan budget. The decrease points
up Bush's central problem in keeping his promise: how to improve
education while chopping the deficit. Faced with daunting fiscal
constraints, Bush finds choice an ideal program, since it stresses
competition without involving major federal funding. So far,
however, the President has neither provided strategy for supporting
the plan nor suggested what might be done to ease racial and
economic inequities.