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Saying “we just can’t keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition,” President Barack Obama proposed to have the government, for the first time, link federal aid to a college’s ability to control tuition costs and maintain education quality.
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Almost half of U.S. public schools are labeled failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law, compared with the 80 percent estimate President Barack Obama’s administration cited as a rationale for changing its mandates, a study found.
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President Barack Obama , who has adopted such traditionally Republican principles as charter schools and teacher merit pay, will meet resistance in a divided Congress over spending and the reach of government in the classroom.
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Public school systems in the U.S. spent the most per student on education in 2008 in at least 16 years, after adjusting for inflation, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by Bloomberg.
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When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he pledged to “fix” the No Child Left Behind federal education law and to promote rigorous standards, merit pay and policies that made it easier to remove low-performing teachers.
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President Barack Obama embraced much of the business community’s agenda last night, calling for progress on stalled trade pacts, investments in roads and education, reworking the corporate tax code, and freezing discretionary spending to cut the deficit.
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Michelle Rhee , the public schools chancellor of the District of Columbia who drew attacks from unions for firing more than 200 teachers, mostly over student performance, may move closer to the unemployment line herself.
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President Barack Obama’s administration will bypass Congress to override the nation’s main public-education law, granting waivers to states if they agree to his schools agenda.
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President Barack Obama said the future of the U.S. economy depends on investing in education to produce “highly skilled” workers, and defended teachers by imploring the nation to honor them.
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President Barack Obama said the increasing debt burden being carried by college graduates is harmful to the economy and that his administration is acting to cut loan payments for millions of Americans.
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