Polish politics, ways, and manners, as well as declining education and rampant religious bigotry, were increasingly pictured as exotically anachronistic.
Senator Lee Rhinanon has argued the the Coalition's pending changes "will further exacerbate declining education quality and already struggling student welfare schemes".
But as Thomas Gais of the Rockefeller Institute notes in a forthcoming paper in the journal First Focus, states in the region have taken little action to deal with increasingly poor health and nutrition, along with declining education standards.
That's in sync with a population that may care less and less about government and world affairs, a problem exacerbated by a declining education system and lack of civics instruction.
Declining education standards — as well as reports of growing violence and drug and alcohol use among the young, which some analysts see as related issues — are contributing to fears that Thailand's dream of joining the ranks of the world's most developed countries may be getting more and more elusive.
The district is losing money as more families leave the region because of high costs, crime and declining education quality.
A lottery program that was supposed to provide more funding for education is now being used to siphon funding away from public schools, leaving parents with no other option but to hope Central Elementary doesn't become a canary in the coal mine for North Carolina's declining education system.
But a revenue neutral tax reform does nothing to reduce the deficit, force corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, improve unemployment, rebuild our infrastructure, improve our declining education system, reduce the power of corporations, or correct the imbalance of tax payments between corporations and 'the people.'.
There is a strong consensus to suggest that with access to voluntary family planning, poverty declines, education rates rise, the health of women and children improves and the numbers of women who die in childbirth and children who die under the age of five falls.
Divisions of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, socio-economic class, and social philosophy are exacerbated by demographic decline, education and labor shortfalls, ambivalence about immigration, the rise of populism, and disaffection with elites.
