Dangling Money, Obama Pushes an Education Shift - NYTimes.com

Dangling Money, Obama Pushes an Education Shift - NYTimes.com: "A recent case is California, where legislative leaders are vowing to do anything necessary, including rewriting a law that prohibits the use of student scores in teacher evaluations, to ensure that the state is eligible for a chunk of the $4.3 billion the federal Education Department will soon award to a dozen or so states. The law had strong backing from the state teachers union."