Leaders keep another generation waiting for free primary education

World leaders meeting at the recently-concluded G8 conference won praise for pledging US$50 billion in increased aid to poor countries. But one group that played a role in shaping the summit’s agenda isn’t celebrating. The Global Campaign for Education (GCE), has expressed disappointment that the full increase will arrive only in 2010, too late to help most of the 100 million children who are out of school now. Read more in the GCE’s statement on the G8 outcomes.