WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is announcing a wide-ranging education policy that embraces merit pay for teachers and a longer school day and year.
He's also urging a plan that would remove limits on charter schools. He calls "the relative decline of American education" unacceptable. He says what's at stake is "nothing less than the American dream."
The proposals are seen as the heart of Obama's vision of 21st century education reform. They're sure to raise criticism, particularly from teachers' unions. Unions have long opposed merit pay in public schools.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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