Ronald Reagan

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Education U.S.-Soviet Student Exchanges Urged
President Reagan answered questions from students at Fallston (Md.) High School about U.S.-Soviet relations following his meeting last week with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

President Reagan brought the message of last month's summit meeting to a Maryland high school last week, encouraging students to participate in people-to-people exchanges with their peers in the Soviet Union.

December 11, 1985
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Education Reagan Threatens to Veto Bills Above Senate Spending Cap
Dissatisfied with the spending cuts in the Congress's mid-summer budget resolution, President Reagan last week threatened to veto fiscal 1986 appropriations bills that exceed funding levels approved by the Senate last spring.
James Hertling, August 21, 1985
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Education Reagan, Citing Opposition, Pledges Not To Abolish E.D. 'At This Time'

Text of the Jan. 29 letter from President Reagan to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, chairman of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, on his decision not to seek abolition of the Education Department:
February 6, 1985
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Education Reagan Contributes to Conservatives' 'Blueprint' on School Issues
President Reagan has contributed the introduction to a new book of essays on education published by a conservative organization in Washington.
James Hertling, October 3, 1984
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Federal Reagan Says Teacher to Be First Space Passenger
President Reagan announced that an elementary- or secondary-school teacher would be the first private citizen to fly on a space-shuttle mission.
Tom Mirga, September 5, 1984
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Education Reagan Says Education Tops Americans' Agenda
Repeating themes that he outlined in his State of the Union address, President Reagan told the National Association of Secondary School Principals that his administration had "put education at the top of the American agenda" and was responsible for a wave of reform initiatives in state education systems.

The President told the principals attending their annual meeting in Las Vegas last week that they bore an "enormous responsibility" for improving the country's schools and that they did not need great infusions of new money to do the job.

February 15, 1984
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Education Excerpt From President Reagan's State of The Union Address
Following is an excerpt from President Reagan's Jan. 25 State of the Union Address.

February 1, 1984
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Education Federal File: Youth's Earnings; Women's Projects; Committee's Labor

The $3.35-per-hour minimum wage "never should have been applied to young people looking for summer jobs, after-school jobs," said President Reagan last week, in defending his Administration's proposal for a sub-minimum wage for youths.
February 16, 1983
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Education President Reagan's 1984 Education Budget
The effects of President Reagan's fiscal 1984 budget proposal on various education-related federal programs are summarized in the following special section.

The budget figures listed include: (1) the actual appropriation figures for the fiscal year 1982; (2) the fiscal 1983 budget set by the Congressional continuing resolution last fall; (3) new proposals by the Administration to rescind funds from the 1983 budget; and (4) the Administration's fiscal 1984 budget proposals.

February 9, 1983
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Education President Reagan's Education Plan, from Speech
We Americans are still the world's technological leader in most fields.

We must keep that edge, and to do so we need to begin renewing the basics--starting with our educational system. While we grew complacent, others have acted. Japan, with a population only about half the size of ours, graduates from its universities more engineers than we do. If a child doesn't receive adequate math and science teaching by the age of 16, he or she has lost the chance to be a scientist or engineer.

February 2, 1983
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Education Opinion Financial Aid and the Reagan Administration: Questioning the Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Financial aid. It was--and is--a powerful idea, one born in a spirit of national concern and fired in the crucible of the civil-rights" movement.
Dan Hall, January 26, 1983
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Education Law Permitting Congress's Veto Is Itself Vetoed
President Reagan last week refused to sign a bill passed during the final days of the 97th Congress that would have strengthened the legislative branch's right to review and, if it deemed appropriate, to veto federal education regulations.

By using the "pocket' veto, the President can fail to act on, and thereby veto, a measure approved by the Congress if the Congress's adjournment prevents him from returning it to the chamber where it originated. Normally, a bill automatically becomes law if the President fails to act on it within 10 days of receiving it. The bill, HR 7336, was drafted largely in response to a confrontation last summer between the Congress and the Education Department over the applicability of the General Education Provisions Act (gepa) to Chapters 1 and 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.

January 19, 1983
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Education President Tangles With Congress Over Budget
President Reagan threatened to bring the federal government to a standstill last week if the Congress failed to cut out a $5.5-billion jobs program from a key budget bill.
Tom Mirga, December 22, 1982
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Education Critics Distort Record on Civil Rights, Justice Department Report Contends
The Justice Department last week issued a 55-page report rebutting charges made by a lawyers' group here that the Reagan Administration had rolled back civil-rights enforcement on several fronts, most notably in the area of school desegregation.
Tom Mirga, November 17, 1982
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