Following Obama's lead, Dudley calls for teachers union to embrace pay reform | OregonLive.com

Following Obama's lead, Dudley calls for teachers union to embrace pay reform | OregonLive.com

Following Obama's lead, Dudley calls for teachers union to embrace pay reform

Published: Monday, September 27, 2010, 4:55 PM Updated: Monday, September 27, 2010, 6:05 PM

Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian
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Hours after President Barack Obama took on the teachers unions, Republican Chris Dudley did the same Monday in the Oregon race for governor.

Dudley urged union leaders - and his rival, Democrat John Kitzhaber - to embrace a $13.2 million federal grant for seven school districts in Oregon aimed at moving the districts toward basing teacher pay raises on student performance. Nancy Noice, the head of the teachers union at the Oregon City School District, said last week that the union, the Oregon City Education Association,would not allow the use of the federal money for