Because states sharply curtailed education, job training and other rehabilitation programs inside prisons, the newly released inmates are far less likely than their counterparts two decades ago to find jobs, maintain stable family lives or stay out of the kind of trouble that leads to more prison.
Attempts to gain further training, to enrol in courses and to gain employment are stumped by an interrupted or prematurely curtailed education, by a lack of a school-leaving certificate, by lack of contacts or support, and by the transient nature of donor-funded projects and interventions.
For budgetary and administrative reasons, school boards are curtailing physical education, while on their own, children grow increasingly sluggish.
According to a Global Policy Forum research by Julie Mollins, more than 300 million women and girls in India do not have access to safe menstrual hygiene products, endangering their health, curtailing their education and putting their livelihoods at risk.
Such a measure would greatly curtail bilingual education and would be strenuously opposed by Aspira.
Californians voted overwhelmingly to approve Proposition 227, which would drastically curtail bilingual education in public schools.
Further hardship curtailed his education, but he was fortunate to be apprenticed to the Admiralty.
At the age of 78 he went back to John Hopkins to earn a master of liberal arts degree, his wartime service having curtailed his education.
Wise grew up in Connersville, Indiana, and in 1931 enrolled at nearby Franklin College to study journalism, but the Great Depression curtailed his education.
Adding to the intensity of the debate is an initiative designed to curtail bilingual education; this proposal has built up a huge momentum, even among Latino voters.Whoever wins the governor's race will be helped by the fact that the current governor, Pete Wilson, has already set the machinery of reform in motion.
