Unions Criticize Obama School Reform's Reliance on Tests, Charters as 'Bush III' - washingtonpost.com:
"Standardized testing, school accountability, performance pay, charter schools -- all are integral to President Obama's $4.35 billion 'Race to the Top' grant competition to spur innovation. None is a typical Democratic crowd-pleaser.
Labor leaders, parsing the Education Department's fine print, call the proposal little more than a dressed-up version of the No Child Left Behind law enacted seven years ago under Obama's Republican predecessor."
"Standardized testing, school accountability, performance pay, charter schools -- all are integral to President Obama's $4.35 billion 'Race to the Top' grant competition to spur innovation. None is a typical Democratic crowd-pleaser.
Labor leaders, parsing the Education Department's fine print, call the proposal little more than a dressed-up version of the No Child Left Behind law enacted seven years ago under Obama's Republican predecessor."