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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday appealed to international donors to increase their financial support, saying more money was needed to rebuild schools and homes destroyed by months of Russian bombardment.Zelenskiy, speaking by video link to finance ministers at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, said Ukraine needed about $55 billion - $38 billion to cover next year's estimated budget deficit, and another $17 billion to start to rebuild critical infrastructure, including schools, housing and energy facilities.

TRY READING THIS The Department of Education is displaying a series of charts that one could argue undermines the federal agency's very raison d'etre. "Promoting its 'No Child Left Behind' agenda, the department's statistics page reveals some embarrassing truths about federal education spending," says Citizens Against Government Waste. One chart trumpets that from 1996 to 2003, federal education spending increased by 132 percent (compared with 48 percent during the same period for national defense). On the other hand, since 1996, 12th-grade science scores have declined. Worse, after $321 billion in federal education outlays since 1965, fourth-grade reading scores have remained...