(Hillary) Clinton Seeks Aid for Minority Students

[Omaha Steve]

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Clinton Seeks Aid for Minority Students
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Feb 20, 8:48 PM (ET)

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

MIAMI (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday criticized President Bush's education policy as doing little to help minorities and acknowledged that she is still searching for ways to raise minority student test scores.

More needs to be done to prepare children for school and to get parents involved in their education, Clinton said while visiting a historic black neighborhood during her first campaign trip to Florida since announcing her candidacy. She said Bush's No Child Left Behind Act isn't providing a solution for raising test scores.

"This achievement gap is deeply troubling to me," Clinton said. "If we don't invest in our children, our society and our economy will decline. This is not just something nice to do, this is something that we have to do."


Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, center, is hugged by girls who presented her with flowers at the Joseph Caleb Center in Miami Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. From left to right are Sheneka Williams, Cedtazia McKinnon, Briasia McIntosh, Courtney Johnson, Jasmine Jones and Sydney Mortimer. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)


Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady, spoke and took questions for an hour from the mostly black audience of 300 in the Liberty City neighborhood. The event was sandwiched between fundraisers in Tampa, Miami and Hollywood that were closed to the press.

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[Colobo]

1. That picture...

Hillary: Blacker than Bill... and Obama

:)

[Solo_in_MD]

2. It seems odd to me that the author of "It Takes A Village" would know that it takes more than money

to solve the educational issues