Same shit, different country.
Politicians just don't care about people at the bottom of the economical pole.
Education is one way to uplift your people and your country.
But, the corruption is so bad, billions are wasted or fall into politicians pockets. They then look the other way on the less fortunates.
Billions of dollars were set aside in NJ for School Construction. The corruption was so vast, all the money is gone and only a handful of projects were completed. So, schools in some districts still suck. Politics can be very abusive when you are in the position of handling millions and millions of dollars with no one to keep an account of where the money is going.
Sandra