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-- requiring state laws conform with federal ones;
-- linking teacher pay to student achievement as determined by standardized tests that measure rote memory, not real learning or preparation for higher education;
-- destroying unions and teacher benefits;
-- empowering bureaucrats over parents to decide what's best for their children;
-- creating a two-tiered, class and income-based system, favoring affluent communities over poor ones, denying poor kids real education and a chance for a better future; and
-- destroying public education by creating another business profit profit center.
Emanuel plans more of it for Chicago, including weakening collective bargaining and teachers' right to strike, the same core issues Wisconsin state workers tried and so far failed to save, perhaps heading for the chopping block in Chicago.
In fact, Emanuel explained:
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