The White House hopeful focused on education reform and improving education for minorities in his address.

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The Literacy and Continuing Education and Capacity Building Programme for Ethnic Minorities was designed especially for ethnic minority adult women (18 to 45 years) in an effort to combat illiteracy and thus to contribute towards the achievement of EFA goals as well as to promote community development.

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Yang and the 18 others in the batch, aged between 15 and 16, all attend a special boarding school for minorities attached to the education college.

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Last week, it announced a small reservation for minorities in government jobs and education places with an eye on the Muslim vote - 19% of the population is Muslim in Uttar Pradesh.

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We must be educated and willing to use that education to, for instance, put at least 50% women and a fair proportion of minorities on our teams.

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