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Federal Money, Teachers' Unions and Education Reform
President Obama is dangling $4.3 billion in stimulus money to promote charter schools, merit pay and standardized tests for evaluating teachers. He says states with laws against such evaluations won't get any money, which rules out New York and California.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPresident Obama is dangling $4.3 billion in stimulus money to promote charter schools, merit pay and standardized tests for evaluating teachers. He says states with laws against such evaluations won't get any money, which rules out New York and California. Even in other states, Education Secretary Arne Duncan could be up against opposition from teachers' unions, a major force in the Democratic Party. Will the prospect of all that money turn the unions around? What's the future of what the President calls "Race to the Top?"
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Rebecca Mooney
Producer, The Treatment
Michele McNeil
Assistant Editor, Education Week
Marilyn Stewart
President, Chicago Teachers' Union
Elizabeth Purvis
Executive Director, Chicago International Charter School
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