Cavazos Decries U.S. ‘Education Deficit’
Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos, visiting Los Angeles, said Friday that the United States will not solve its budget and trade deficits until it addresses its “education deficit.”
But Cavazos told an audience of about 600 people at UCLA that he does “not sense a national commitment to improve education” and said public interest in the problem must be raised.
“We will not develop solutions to the budget deficit and the trade deficit until we solve the education deficit,” Cavazos said.
The United States ranks near the bottom in math and other science scores when ranked with its industrial trading partners, he said.
Cavazos delivered the keynote address at a celebration marking UCLA’s $370-million, six-year fund-raising drive.
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