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BUSH SUPPORTS HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES: The President declares HBC Week and meets with an advisory panel.
(Sep. 23, 2002) *By Executive Order this February, President Bush created an advisory board to examine the needs of historically black colleges.
That was his first step in fulfilling his campaign pledge to boost the federal spending for black schools by 30 percent in 2005.
According to White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, Bush attended a [board] meeting “to listen to their recommendations for advancing these institutions.”
The Bush administration's budget plan proposes $264 million in federal aid. It’s not clear from reports whether the advisory panel endorsed the amount proposed in the budget.
Bush proclaimed September 15-21 as “National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.”
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