Sitting comfortably on-stage, in an armchair, she told the crowd: "School, right from the beginning, is an experience of life for children.
In both cities, immigration was the primary cause, prompting complaints about housing, crowded schools and traffic.
We have big problems with the NHS, crowded schools, housing and low-wage jobs.
She vowed to stem suburban sprawl by giving municipalities the tools to stop development projects that overburden congested roadways and crowded schools.
It brings traffic jams, long lines at the supermarket, crowded schools and an inadequate tax base to do very much very quickly about an overstressed infrastructure.
In many states, there are already signs of public unease over the role of immigration in crowding schools, burdening hospitals and depressing wages.
These include traffic congestion that is among the worst in the nation, air pollution, soaring housing prices, crowded schools and a growing sense that local government is almost helpless to solve these problems.
Ramshackle Shia villages ringing the main city, Manama, suffer power cuts, leaky sewage and crowded schools.Other places to find a drinkIt is not only the poor who complain.
Middle-school teacher Graça Dias cannot see how Portugal can catch up while the classrooms are crowded, schools are closed, teachers are sacked in droves and specialised subjects are axed from the curriculum.
Enrollment in elementary and middle schools is expected to decline in the next several years, according to the report, but there are many neighborhoods that have crowded schools that are likely to see spikes in population.
