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Oakland teacher turned activist rallies for education reform

By BEN TREFNY on July 27, 2011 - 5:13pm

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President Obama’s Race to the Top program has challenged schools to excel, providing grant funding for states that implement measurable programs to achieve “significant improvement in student outcomes.” He talked about the program in a commencement address this year at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: And as a country, we need all of our young people to be ready. We can’t just have some young people successful. We’ve got to have every young people contributing. Earning those high school diplomas, then earning those college diplomas or getting certified in a trade or a professions. We can’t succeed without it.