Venezuela's Plan To Aid Schools Gives Role to Military
When he was elected president of Venezuela two years ago, Hugo Chávez Frías promised a "social revolution" to raise the standard of living for the nation's 24 million citizens, as many as 80 percent of whom are poor.
In the ensuing months, he introduced a new constitution, a
restructured Congress, and a modified judicial system. Yet amid those
dramatic changes, it is the administration's fledgling proposals to
improve the nation's 17,000 public schools and increase educational
access and achievement that have been at the center of controversy in
the Latin American nation.
The former military leader has called in the troops, literally, to rebuild dilapidated schools and provide leadership in struggling ones. The efforts have opened the schoolhouse doors to hundreds of thousands more children, and brought needed resources to the poorest regions. But they have also fueled fears of a militarization of the schools and a steady...
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