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Perry defends ed. record, Gingrich praises Race to Top
- 09-08-2011
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
Gov. Rick Perry, the frontrunner among GOP presidential candidates, just cannot get away from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's criticism of his record on education in Texas. During the Republican candidates' debate Wednesday night, NBC's Brian Williams hit the Lone Star State governor with a question on the cuts he's made to education in Texas. This past session, lawmakers there rewrote state budget rules so that they could provide schools with $4 billion less over the next two years to help close a $27 billion shortfall on a $127 billion state budget. (For more on what went down, check out this story.) But Perry said cutting education hasn't hurt results in the state. (more...)
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