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Teachers' unions say Obama's educations proposal are "Bush II"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Come join us under the (school) bus. To the surprise of many educators who campaigned last year for change in the White House, the Obama administration's first recipe for school reform relies heavily on Bush-era ingredients and adds others that make unions gag.... Labor leaders, parsing the Education Department's fine print, call the proposal little more than a dressed-up version of the No Child Left Behind law enacted seven years ago under Obama's Republican predecessor. "It looks like the only strategies they have are charter schools and measurement," ...

What the Obama Administration is Doing to End School Segregation
Tennessee Guerilla Women — Cue that SNL skit. Many of us are still reeling in shock from the Obama Administration's continuation of the Bush/Cheney education (sic) policies. And like Bush/Cheney, the current Administration is so far doing nothing to address racial segregation in the schools. Obviously, there's a lot more to being a post racial nation than putting a black man into the White House. ...