Speakers Call for First-Class Education And End to Child Poverty
Democrats conveyed a message of optimism and hope in a series of speeches Tuesday night on social issues including education, but they conceded that there are still many challenges ahead when it comes to providing access to high-quality schools and health care and ending child poverty.
“Surely we can find the will and resources to build new schools, hire new teachers, and connect classes to the Internet,” said U.S. Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr., D-Tenn., the keynote speaker on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. “Imagine a world where we could give every child a first-class education.”
Mr. Ford, a 30-year-old two-term member of Congress, serves on the Education and the Workforce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Vice President Al Gore, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has called him a “rising...
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