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Senate Republicans raised questions Wednesday about whether President Obama’s plan to turn around struggling schools would fly in rural America. One Democrat said she worried that many states would be shortchanged of federal funding they need to improve teaching.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), himself a former education secretary, held up the 41-page proposal to revise the 2002 law. “This is a helpful blueprint,” Alexander said. “We asked you for it, and we’ll now take it from here. It’s a good beginning for a complex area.”
Teachers unions disagree. The American Federation of Teachers, with 1.4 million members, and the National Education Association, with 3.2 million, have both criticized the plan. “It’s still based on narrow, do-or-die, high-stakes tests, where some kids win and some kids lose,” Dennis Van Roekel, the NEA president, said in an interview. Teachers, he said, are “tired of the test taking, test preparation, practice tests. They want those tests gone. And they’re tired of their profession being attacked.”
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