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[01/29/1998 - 10/19/1999]: 24194021-20060474F-001-023-2023

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This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.

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the 12th grade.
get home. So this is important.
http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354f3a35.html 1/5/2010
We ought to help more kids get off to a good start. We ought to help ma
that we can have better-trained teachers, and we ought to support that sc
improvement.
thing. We rank near the top in the 4th grade, even though we have the m
diverse student body, not only by race and ethnic and national origin, bi
income -- more diverse than a lot of wealthy countries. We do great in tl
beginning. We are in the middle by the Sth grade. And we're near the be
Let me just mention a couple of other things. In addition to an economy
offers opportunity for all, we want a society that enables us all to honor
responsibilities to our families and to one another. Among other things,
proposed a Patient's Bill of Rights that I think is very important to deal ’
the fact that 160 million Americans are now in managed care plans. The
been a lot of good out of that. It's cut inflation in health care dramaticall
It's helped us to get the economy more healthy. But there are also all kir
The other thing I want to say is that these statistics also are misleading
because we still have a lot of schools that are as good as any that you co
find anywhere. And an awful lot of our problems are concentrated in a f
schools, and, again, we need a community approach to that.
Well, I think we need smaller classes, more teachers, better-trained teaci
The kids should be required to take more difficult courses. We have too
children who go all the way through high school and our put in these tes
they haven't even had the courses taught by people with the academic
background
to teach them. And I think that now that we have the money to contribul
that, without interfering with the primary role of the states and the local
governments for education, we have some funds -- we will have this yei
ought to invest in that.
One of the most important things in this community budget for educatio
substantial new funds to help schools stay open after hours to be commi
institutions to give children places to go if the parents are working. The
majority of juvenile crime is committed after school closes and before tl
I really admire what they're doing in Chicago to try to turn their school:
around. Now, in Chicago, if you don't pass exams, you can't get prornot
the
next grade. But instead of just holding you back, they have mandatory s
school - a drastic thing for a big city. But you know what else? The crii
rate has gone way down in the summertime in Chicago. (Laughter.) Wh
Because
the kids are now - they're being given a better future and also somethin

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.