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Obama plan calls for education-funding increase
- 02-02-2010
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By Neil King Jr./Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposes to boost education spending 9% to advance its overhaul of federal school-funding policy that has emerged as a rare patch of common ground for the administration and some Republicans. At the same time, Mr. Obama is using his 2011 Education Department budget proposal to signal plans to revamp the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind policies, which have stirred opposition from some teachers and school administrators. Mr. Obama states his intention to scrap the Bush-era accountability standards for a new system to be negotiated with Congress. Administration officials say that talks with Congress on how to revamp the No Child law remain preliminary. (more...)
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