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  • September 2008

    • Obama Runs to Center on Education, Touts Charters

      Time  |  Sep 9, 08 12:04 PM CDT

      Obama Runs to Center on Education, Touts Charters

      (Newser) - Barack Obama will come out today in favor of merit pay for teachers, doubled federal support for charter schools, and other centrist strategies to boost American education, reports Time . In the draft of a speech he's giving in Ohio, Obama warns that teachers who fail to improve will “be replaced,” though his party is close to teachers’ unions, which have also objected to using public money to fund privately run charter schools. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • charter school  • teachers' unions  • teacher pay

  • July 2008

    • GOP Must Strike Back in the 'Burbs

      National Review  |  Jul 11, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      GOP Must Strike Back in the 'Burbs

      (Newser) - The GOP coalition—seemingly indomitable 4 years ago—is in shambles, losing ground “on nearly every demographic and geographic front,” write Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam in the National Review . Republicans must expand their base, and the writers have a plan: Seduce “the affluent, well-educated, increasingly liberal upper middle class.” More »

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      John McCain  • Republicans  • environmentalism  • Ronald Reagan  • suburbs  • charter school

  • March 2008

    • Obama Quits School Reform Talk on Trail

      New Republic  |  Mar 12, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Obama Quits School Reform Talk on Trail

      (Newser) - Barack Obama has been backing off post-partisan rhetoric on education, looking more like a stick-in-the-mud Democratic regular on schools and less like the reformer who supported test-based accountability and performance pay for teachers. The Chicagoan had bucked teachers' unions and other stodgy liberals, supporting charter schools in Illinois and mentorship programs in Washington, Josh Patashnik writes in the New Republic . More »

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      Barack Obama  • education  • No Child Left Behind  • charter school  • teachers' unions  • vouchers

    • NYC Charter School To Pay Teachers $125K

      New York Times  |  Mar 7, 08 6:16 PM CST

      NYC Charter School To Pay Teachers $125K

      (Newser) - A New York City charter school plans to employ a radical new setup meant to test the value of teacher quality over extras in the educational experience, the New York Time s reports. Though the Equity Project, set to open in 2009, will have large classes and fewer classroom resources, teachers will make $125,000—twice that of an average NYC public-school educator. More »

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      New York City  • education  • salary  • classroom  • charter school  • teacher pay

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