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Obama backs merit pay for teachers, charter schools
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers yesterday in spelling out a vision of education that will almost certainly alienate union backers.
A strategy that ties teacher pay to student performance has for years been anathema to teachers unions, a powerful force in the Democratic Party. These unions also are wary of charter schools, nontraditional educational systems...
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