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For months, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been stumping for the new plan even before it was announced because the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated $100 billion for education. In a July 24 press release, eligibility, it was explained, depends on complying with federally mandated reforms that include:
-- "Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace;
-- Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals;
-- Building data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practices; and
-- Turning around our lowest-performing schools."
ObamaEd, in fact, mandates:
-- open-ended switching of public schools to charter or for-profit ones;
-- running them by marketplace rules;
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